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Welcome to RubyGems.org, the Ruby community's gem hosting service. The purpose of this project is three-fold:
- Provide a better API for dealing with gems
- Create more transparent and accessible project pages
- Enable the community to improve and enhance the site
The project was started in April 2009 byNick Quaranto, and has since grown to include the contributions of over350 Rubyists andbillions of gem downloads. As of the RubyGems 1.3.6 release, the site has been renamed to RubyGems.org from Gemcutter to solidify the site's central role in the Ruby community.
Although RubyGems.org is not run by one specific company, plenty have helped us out so far. The current design, illustrations, and front-end development of this site were created byDockYard.GitHub has also been invaluable for helping us collaborate and share code easily. The site started onHeroku, whose great service helped prove RubyGems as a viable solution that the whole community could rely on. Our infrastructure is currently hosted onAWS.
Some insights into the technical aspects of the site: It's 100% Ruby. The main site is aRails application. Gems are hosted onAmazon S3, served byFastly, and the time between publishing a new gem and having it ready for installation is usually just a few seconds. For more info,please check out the code, which isMIT licensed over at GitHub.
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Just select the download button and you'll get three .PNGs and an .SVG of the RubyGems logo all for yourself.