How you can help make RubyGems and the surrounding ecosystem better.
Looking to contribute to a RubyGems project? You've come to the right place!
There are many development efforts going on right now, and they could use
your help. Just follow the links below to get started contributing or to contact the
project maintainers.
* [Core Projects](#core-projects)
* [Ecosystem Projects](#ecosystem-projects)
* [3rd Party Projects](#3rd-party-projects)
* [Add Your Own Idea](#add-your-own-idea)
Core Projects
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These projects are maintained by the core RubyGems team across the [ruby](https://github.com/ruby/) and [rubygems](https://github.com/rubygems/) organizations.
RubyGems & Bundler
Ruby's package management system. This monorepo contains two CLI tools:
`gem` for installing and managing individual gems, and `bundle` for managing
application dependencies. Both are bundled with Ruby.
Alumni:
RubyGems.org
The Ruby community's gem hosting service and registry.
Alumni:
Ecosystem Projects
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These projects are part of the [RubyGems organization](https://github.com/rubygems/) and support the core infrastructure.
RubyGems Guides
The central home for RubyGems documentation, including tutorials and reference material.
Contributions are welcome!
Alumni:
RubyGems.org API Library
A Ruby client library for the RubyGems.org API.
Alumni:
RubyGems Mirror
The `gem mirror` command for creating local mirrors of all gems from a remote
gem source. Useful for running RubyGems behind a firewall or for availability.
Alumni:
Gemstash
A RubyGems.org cache and private gem server.
Alumni:
release-gem
The official GitHub Action for publishing gem files to RubyGems.org.
Alumni:
configure-rubygems-credentials
A GitHub Action to configure RubyGems.org credential environment variables
for use in CI/CD workflows.
configure_trusted_publisher
A CLI tool to automate the process of configuring a trusted publisher for a gem.
Alumni:
3rd Party Projects
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These projects are outside of the RubyGems organization, but work closely with RubyGems to improve the gem experience for everyone.
RubyDoc.info
Provides [YARD](https://yardoc.org) documentation for every RubyGem available.
Push a gem, and you get docs created instantly!
Geminabox
A simple way to host RubyGems internally and allow uploading of private gems.
bundler-audit
Patch-level verification for Bundler. Checks for known vulnerabilities
in gems listed in Gemfile.lock.
ruby-advisory-db
A community-maintained database of security advisories for Ruby gems.
Used by bundler-audit and other tools to check for vulnerable dependencies.
Add Your Own Idea
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We'd love for your new idea to be on this list. If you're working on a
RubyGems related project, just [fork this
repo](https://github.com/rubygems/guides) and add the link!