Rip has quietly been making its way out into the world of Ruby, but the power it holds within is seen as the next generation packaging for Ruby Apps. The system that has come out is on the “development alpha” stage which can be compared to the release candidates by which developers can begin to experiment and build applications with. They however stressed that the version out of the box is still to be finalized and should not be used for production till they get it fully tested and debugged for pending release.
Loaded with some powerful features, such as another level of visualization above the existing Git repository, Gems and file structures that are presented as packages. It also has the ability to support virtual environments which can be used to deploy separate forms of an application for testing and error checking. The release of RIP takes a clue from Git that decentralizes filing making it easier to specify file locations and other file attributes.