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Have you ever tried to run different applications that requires different versions of packages in one system??  Not fun.  How about the countless time you run into dependency conflicts during your development??  That halt your progress to a complete stop.

A lot of developers understand your pain, and they are developing a solution for a better packaging system.  Today, we will take a look at Rip.  Rip calls itself "an attempt to create a next generation packaging system for Ruby".  It offers multiple environments with different versions of libraries, dependency conflict resolution, and no changes to your code.  Basically, it is RubyGem 2.0.

Even at alpha stage, Rip looks very promising.  Check it out if you can.  Be sure to bookmark hellorip.com and follow their development.  Prehaps one day it will help ease your development pain.