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: #gemcutter on Freenode
• Travis:
• Gemnasium:

Please see the wiki for the latest 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.