How to collaborate remotely in rails with different Ruby versions?

Question

Is there a way to generate a rails project with a 'minimum' Ruby version? Perhaps to exclude the version altogether?

Situation: I am working on an introductory rails project with a remote partner (paired programming). We have a small difference in ruby version (2.5.1 and 2.5.8).

Set-up: $ rails _5.2.3_ new my_project_name -G --database=postgresql

We then update the gemfile to allow 'at least' version 2.5.1: ruby '~> 2.5.1'

Each time we pass the project it requires that we edit the /.ruby-version file to 2.5.1 and 2.5.8 respectively.

This /.ruby-version change is what I am trying to solve more permanently.

I am new to programming so any help would be appreciated, thank you!

Answer 1

There are ways you could force this to happen (go down the rabbit hole of .gitignore ing ruby version, etc)....but by far , the best way is to be developing on the same ruby version.