Likelihood to Recommend RubyGems is a great packaging library primarily because of its verbose logging information and easy to navigate system architecture. We've dealt with artifactory systems in the past for Java and JavaScript, and RubyGems just makes it a lot easier to handle the packaging and deployment of our reusable libraries. We've noticed in the past that there are times where (if all 200+ teams) are releasing at a similar time that publishing the gems can lag, but that's fairly rare.
Read full review For a medium to large size organization with the possibility to setup a central support team to support the governance, maintenance and implementation of the Sonatype Platform, the product suite from Sonatype is very well suited. Setting up detailed configurations requires quite some effort and deep understanding of the Sonatype Platform. Whenever needed the support teams from Sonatype are available for technical and functional support. As well the Innovate platform of Sonatype offers customers to interact on specific topics and set up customer reference calls.
Read full review Pros Seemless packaging Well documented Verbose error logs Active community support Quick security fixes/releases Read full review Nexus firewall is a great feature enabled for all our proxy repositories which are used to download the third-party opensource packages. Nexus IQ is integrated with build stage to analyze the component against evaluation policy. This helps to figure out the application security standards. Nexus IQ is also having a feature to scan container images before it uploads to our private repository. This is great feature for container platforms. Read full review Cons Lack of solid Windows support. Not great performance if lots of people release at the same time. Read full review Recommendations for best Energy Consumption options based on existing BOM - e.g. replace component X with component Y to reduce CPU cycles. More specific recommendations regarding Open Source Licensing - not just saying "Copyleft" but the next level of analysis (it's difficult - but would save a lot of time) Provide specific component replacement options where no "next version" resolves a high severity vulnerability. Read full review Likelihood to Renew Sonatype supports more than 200 dev(s). It proves with the repository to store the artifacts. Allows for governance of open source software used by the different teams. It is used by security teams to scan for vulnerabilities in software(s) and in the deployed containers. It helps ensure code quality.
Read full review Support Rating RubyGems has strong community support and finding issues to errors is as simple as searching for the error message you're receiving (but usually the error is clear enough without having to bother with that). Honestly, the framework is simple enough that support isn't needed much, but it has been helpful to us in the past when we have needed it.
Read full review Monthly touchpoints with Sinisa has been very valuable.
Read full review Alternatives Considered RubyGems is easier to use and to troubleshoot issues overall. Sometimes when troubleshooting in other systems errors are masked and it takes a trained eye or a lot of time searching through Google trying to find out what it really means. RubyGems is very verbose and allows for quick troubleshooting of any deployment problems.
Read full review Out of other products we evaluated before choosing Sonatype, the later looked far more user friendly, easy to understand and work with. This was key for us, as the tool needs to be used by many engineers that don't have security as their main focus. Having a tool that is easy to understand and work with, makes the process of evaluating open source dependencies much easier and appealing for developers.
Read full review Return on Investment Quick package hosting. Faster deployment process. Less troubleshooting needed during deployment. Read full review Sonatype's centralized management of artifacts have made it very easy for developers to share code in an efficient manner. Sonatype's low false positive rate has made it easier to convince developers to remediate vulnerabilities Sonatype's archaic architecture has made it more expensive to manage than it could be. Read full review ScreenShots Sonatype Platform Screenshots