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Since the first gem was born, gem authors have had to toe the line between configurability and supportability. This post covers a facet of this conundrum - when and how to extract certain functionality from an app into a gem and how to support low level configurability. For those interested in a higher level discussion of gem configuration patterns, Brandon Hilkert does a good job covering this landscape in his blog post Ruby Gem Configuration Patterns.

So, what does “low level” configurability...