The Dangers of Using Code You Don't Control

The Events

Fork this Gist and Respond to the Following Questions

Go through some past projects you've worked on and look through the gemfiles.
Pick three gems - try to pick a combination of obscure gems and ones you use on every project
List them with links to their Github repos here
- Gem 1
- Gem 2
- Gem 3
For each Gem, answer the following questions
- What does this Gem generally do?
- When is the date of the last commit?
- How many open issues does it have?
- Start looking around the source code
  - Link to one piece of code or a file you understand
    - What does this code do?
  - Link to one piece of code or a file you don't understand at all?
    - What do you think this code might do?
- Does it seem reasonable to add this dependency into your code?
What are some factors you consider when adding dependencies to your projects?

Read through these two walkthroughs
- A Walk Through to Create an NPM module
- A Walk Through to Create a Ruby Gem
Create your own npm package or ruby gem that does something silly. Some examples:
- Pat Wey's We Work Remotely Gem
- My Curl-Breaker NPM package - made as part of an engineering lunch hackathon... judge my terrible code. JUDGE IT.
Link to your work below