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What is RubyGems?

RubyGems.org, developed by Ruby Central, is a gem hosting service that aims to meet the needs of the Ruby community. It provides a platform for Ruby developers, software developers, web developers, IT professionals, and open-source contributors to publish, share, and distribute Ruby gems. According...

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What is RubyGems?

RubyGems (RubyGems.org) is a package manager with dependency manager for the Ruby programming language.

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Details

What is RubyGems?

RubyGems.org, developed by Ruby Central, is a gem hosting service that aims to meet the needs of the Ruby community. It provides a platform for Ruby developers, software developers, web developers, IT professionals, and open-source contributors to publish, share, and distribute Ruby gems. According to the vendor, RubyGems.org offers a range of features and functionalities to support professionals in various industries.

Key Features

Gem Hosting Service: According to the vendor, RubyGems.org allows users to instantly publish and install Ruby gems, providing a platform for developers to share and distribute their gems. Users can easily find and install gems for their projects.

API Access: The vendor states that RubyGems.org offers an API that enables developers to interact with the platform programmatically. Users can retrieve information about available gems and integrate RubyGems.org functionality into their own applications.

Search Functionality: According to the vendor, RubyGems.org provides advanced search capabilities for finding specific gems. Users can search by gem name, author, or keyword and filter search results by popularity, downloads, and release date.

Gem Downloads: The vendor claims that RubyGems.org tracks and displays the number of downloads for each gem, allowing users to gauge the popularity and usage of a gem. This feature provides insights into the community's interest in specific gems.

Gem Versioning: According to the vendor, RubyGems.org supports multiple versions of gems, allowing developers to specify gem dependencies based on version numbers. This flexibility enables developers to choose the appropriate gem version for their projects.

Gem Ownership and Maintenance: RubyGems.org allows gem maintainers to publish and manage their gems, according to the vendor. The platform also provides ownership transfer options for gems that need new maintainers, fostering collaboration and contribution within the RubyGems.org ecosystem.

Community Contributions: The vendor encourages developers to contribute to the improvement of RubyGems.org. Users can become contributors and help enhance the platform, creating a collaborative environment for the Ruby community.

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Our company uses RubyGems as the de-facto packaging solution for our Ruby on Rails systems. All of the teams that use Ruby use our internal RubyGems artifactory. It's primarily used to resolve the issue of having to package common Ruby libraries together, as well as to publish our own internal gems and reusable libraries.
  • Seemless packaging
  • Well documented
  • Verbose error logs
  • Active community support
  • Quick security fixes/releases
  • Lack of solid Windows support.
  • Not great performance if lots of people release at the same time.
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.
  • Quick package hosting.
  • Faster deployment process.
  • Less troubleshooting needed during deployment.
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.
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.
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