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We can lock our application with a specific Ruby and Node.js version. This will help us to isolate the dependencies of Ruby and Node.js modules used in the application.

In our application, we will use Node.js version 22.13 and Ruby version 3.3.5.

Run the following commands from the terminal:

bash

1echo "22.13" > .nvmrc > .node-version echo "3.3.5" > .ruby-version

These files will be read by rbenv and nvm to auto-set the versions.

Now run the following commands from the terminal to ensure that our project is currently using these specified versions:

bash

1rbenv install nvm install

The above commands should ideally point out that the specified versions are already installed and you can safely exit. If that's not the case, then please go ahead with the installation of the required versions, using the same commands.

Fixing rexml gem issue

We are not going to use some of the auto-generated gems for testing. Thus let's remove those unwanted gems, among which there are selenium based gems that may cause rexml dependency issue.

Run the following command from the terminal:

bash

1bundle remove capybara selenium-webdriver webdrivers

The above command should've removed those unwanted gems from the Gemfile.

Remove unwanted gems

Some gems come pre-installed in Rails 7 but are not required for our Granite application like importmap-rails, turbo-rails, and stimulus-rails.

Remove the following lines, including the comments, from the Gemfile:

bash

1# Use JavaScript with ESM import maps [https://github.com/rails/importmap-rails]
2gem "importmap-rails"
3
4# Hotwire's SPA-like page accelerator [https://turbo.hotwired.dev]
5gem "turbo-rails"
6
7# Hotwire's modest JavaScript framework [https://stimulus.hotwired.dev]
8gem "stimulus-rails"

Then update the Gemfile.lock file by running the following command:

bash

1bundle install

Updating .gitignore file

We don't need all of the generated files to be version-controlled. To ignore these unwanted files, we specify them in the .gitignore file. BigBinary has specified a standard set of folders and files to be ignored by git in the Wheel repository.

Run the following command from the terminal, in the root of the project, to use that config:

bash

1curl -o ".gitignore" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bigbinary/wheel/main/.gitignore"

Now the .gitignore file should be visible in your project's root.