The Ruby community's gem host.
- Provide a better API for dealing with gems
- Create more transparent and accessible project pages
- Enable the community to improve and enhance the site
- Mailing List
- FAQ
- IRC: #rubygems on Freenode
- Travis:
- Gemnasium:
- Code Climate:
- Trello Board
Please follow our contribution guidelines.
To get setup, please check out the Development Setup.
Our deployment process is documented on the wiki as well, there's a multi-step Checklist to run through.
RubyGems.org consists of a few major parts:
- Rails app: To manage users and allow others to view gems, etc.
- Sinatra app (Hostess): the gem server
- Gem processor: Handles incoming gems and storing them in S3 (production) or
on the filesystem in
server/(development).
RubyGems.org uses the MIT license. Please check the LICENSE file for more details.