Gem Flico 2.0.0 Released!

Hey folks!

Happy to announce that Gem Flico v2.0.0 has been successfully released with Ruby version 3.2.2.

Flico is CLI tool to a create collage from user desired keywords using Flickr with MiniMagick Montage.

Its been a while that this gem didn’t get any updates but I will surely keep it updated!

A few learning from the upgrade:

• Avoid calling Kernal.open with following code

    url = "http://<some website>/<some picture>.png"
    open(url, read_timeout: 10)
  

  instead if you are using open-uri then do

    require 'open-uri'
  
    url = "http://<some website>/<some picture>.png"
    URI.open(url, read_timeout: 10)
  

• Bump up your dependencies sooner before they have a major release to avoid breaking changes.

• Lock your dependencies, this will ensure that your gem doesn’t fail. Make sure to use:
  • a specific version like:

      'rake', '~> 13.0.6'
    

  • closed version bounds like:

      'rake', '~> 13.0', '>= 13.0.6'
    

  • but not open bounds like:

      'rake', '>= 13.0.6'
    

• Make frequent releases.

• Maintain changelogs and releases.

Lots of good stuff on the way! Keep looking!

Thanks! :)