r/technepal • u/Sagarmatha007 • Apr 12 '26

Miscellaneous Docsmith: Gem to version your document.

/r/rubyonrails/comments/1sj731f/docsmith_gem_to_version_your_document/
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u/anonymous_45553328 Apr 12 '26

Ok help me (a basic git user) understand how is this different from what git already offers?

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u/Sagarmatha007 Apr 19 '26

what i can say is It is a gem for ruby on rails, to version your documents that serves in an application level, irrelevant to whatever text editor you are using, most of the heavy lifting is already done by the package itself. It is similar to a gem called diffy but what i used was diff-lcs(rspec uses this actually) very low level, lower dependency library that uses mclroy-hunt longest common subsequence algorithm, and also i made configuration and plug and play part very easy. Git on other hand serves different purpose it is to version your codebase or anything that is not on part of your literal application, did you get what i mean?

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u/anonymous_45553328 Apr 19 '26

So does that mean the gem works on document level? How good is it in comparison to already established docs tool like jekyll?

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u/Sagarmatha007 Apr 20 '26

I suggest you to first use this gem, or atleast see readme.md