ruby on rails - Does the order of gems in your Gemfile make a difference?

Question

Is the order in which you list your gems important? Are these two blocks equivalent?

gem 'carrierwave'
gem 'rmagick'

And

gem 'rmagick'
gem 'carrierwave'

Answer 1

When you use Bundle.require (which Rails does), Gems are required in the order they appear in the Gemfile. In wasn’t always like this, but has been this way for a while.

Since Carrierwave requires RMagick explicitly when it is needed, I don’t think it should matter in your case; but strictly speaking the two blocks are not equivalent.