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		unwind on Oct 18, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: RVM 2.0: Convert 20,000 lines of shell script into... How does one write a page like that, without even trying to explain, in a single sentence, what "RVM" is? It surely wouldn't hurt? I assume that if you don't know (like me), you're not in the target audience of people willing to chip in to get the conversion done, but it still manages to frustrate me.

bstar77 on Oct 18, 2013 | [–]

It's definitely something only targeted to Ruby devs. If you use ruby, you know what RVM is.

To answer your question, RVM is a version manager for Ruby. http://rvm.io/

mpapis on Oct 18, 2013 | [–]

Thanks for the feedback, I’ve updated the fundraiser description, it was so obvious to me what RVM is, it should be now clear what RVM does.

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