Resources

A collection of helpful material about RubyGems. Feel free to fork and add your own!

Tutorials

• Making Ruby Gems
• Gem Sawyer, Modern Day Ruby Warrior
• Gemcutter & Jeweler
• MicroGems: five minute RubyGems - Gems so small that you can store them in a gist.
• Let’s Write a Gem: Part 1 and Part 2
• Polishing Rubies

Presentations

• History of RDoc and RubyGems
• Building a Gem
• Gemology

Philosophy

• Semantic Versioning
• Ruby Packaging Standard
• Why require 'rubygems' Is Wrong
• How to Name Gems

Patterns

• Gem Packaging: Best Practices
• Rubygems Good Practice
• Gem Development Best Practices

Creating

Tools to help build gems.

• gemerator - Minimalist tool for generating skeleton gems.
• hoe - Rake/RubyGems helper.
• Jeweler - Opinionated tool for managing RubyGems projects.
• micro-cutter - Tool to build the base files for a MicroGem.
• newgem - New gem generator.
• RStack - Generator intended for use on private gems.

Monitoring

Tools to watch gems for changes.

• Gemnasium - Parses your GitHub projects to learn what to notify you about. Free for public repos only.
• gemwhisperer

Hosting

• Gemfury - Private cloud-based RubyGems servers. Priced by number of collaborators.

Utilities

• gemnasium-parser - Determine dependencies without evaluating the ruby in gemfiles or gemspecs