RubyGems.org (née Gemcutter)

The Ruby community's gem host.

Purpose

• Provide a better API for dealing with gems
• Create more transparent and accessible project pages
• Enable the community to improve and enhance the site

Links

• Mailing List
• FAQ
• IRC: #rubygems on Freenode
• Travis:
• Gemnasium:
• Code Climate:
• Trello Board

Contributions

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.

Organization

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).

License

RubyGems.org uses the MIT license. Please check the LICENSE file for more details.