RubyGems and RubyGems.org (Changelog Interviews #59)

Wynn sat down with Nick Quaranto at Red Dirt Ruby Conference to talk about Gemcutter, RubyGems.org, and how to get started creating your own Ruby gem.

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Featuring:

• Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Nick Quaranto, creator of Gemcutter which is now RubyGems.org
• Gemcutter is the Ruby community’s gem hosting service.
• Tom Preston-Warner, founder of GitHub
• RubyForge was the original spot to host your Ruby project.
• Peter Cooper, publisher of Ruby Inside and co-host of the Ruby Show.
• A gemspec is a manifest for a Ruby gem.
• Since a gemspec is saved as YAML, you can embed Ruby in it.
• Bundler manages a Ruby application’s dependencies through its entire life across many machines systematically and repeatably.
• Bundler 1.1 aims to speed up how gems are fetched.
• Jeweler and Hoe help you create, package, and release gems.
• Ryan Tomayko from GitHub tells us why “require ‘rubygems’” is wrong
• GitHub is no longer in the Gem building business.
• Erik Michaels-Ober uses the gem post install message to share resources with users.
• When not squashing Gemcutter bugs or applying patches, Nick likes to play with Redis and EventMachine.

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