…path and require it in your application. In fact, you can bundle this file into a gem, ship it to Gemcutter and with the help of Bundler , all your users have to do is specify " gem 'ournew-plugin' " in their Gemfile, and the rest is taken care of. With a little more imagination, and fun, we can extend our example above into a ' slowgrowl ' plugin, which will - you guessed it - growl at the developer anytime it detects a slow code path in your …
…interviews - covering Ryan Bates ( Railscasts), Ben Scofield, James Golick, Carl Lerche, and Santiago Pastorino.
Ruby Heroes winner interviews - covering Aaron Patterson [ Nokogiri], Gregory Brown [ Prawn], Nick Quaranto [ Gemcutter], and Wayne E Seguin [ RVM]
…place of Rubygems.org, becoming the de facto gem repository. So Github + Gemcutter modernized our open source process.
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Wayne E. Seguin
This is easy: @ wayneeseguin. Wayne became well known because of his most recente project, the RVM . It is now possible to have many different versions and different Ruby implementations running side by side in the same environment. We can have Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 and JRuby running along. Even better: we can configure …
Gemcutter moved from postgres to redis @ qrush # railsconf mostly
Lots of Gemcutter clones out there @ qrush # railsconf
.@qrush wants to add better indexes, dependency resolution, and support bundler in RubyGems.org # railsconf
.@qrush also wants historical data for every gem with download graphs. @ qrush # railsconf
github.com/rubygems/rubygems No longer on svn. @ qrush # railsconf All very cool. Nick is clearly firing on all cylinders -- he deserves …
…representatives from Twitter, 37signals, Github, and the New York Times.
Lapidary: the Art of Gemcutting Nick Quaranto will be giving this talk Thursday, reviewing the past and future of Gemcutter and how it became the new central RubyGems host.
We hope you can attend these. And if you see us around, feel free to say hi. I'll be the one wearing shin guards.
… HookR, and numerous other Rubygems . Contributor to Gemcutter, UtilityBelt, the DataMapper/SimpleDB adapter, and other projects.
Avdi has this to say about the challenge:
One of the hardest parts of getting started with a new programming language is picking problems to practice on. The problems need to be difficult enough to give you an opportunity to apply the features of the language, but small enough to complete in a reasonable amount of time. RPCFN is a great way …
RubyGems.org move complete - GemCutter has finished its bloodless coup over ruby gem hosting. Time to upgrade your rubygems to 1.3.6.
jQuery Simple Multi-Select , jQuery Multiselect list plugin , and jQuery MultiSelect Plugin w/ ThemeRoller Support - Three options for adding click-to-toggle functionality to HTML select controls. I ended up using the first of these on a project, and it works well.
Use a 503 for your Rails maintenance page …
Gabriel Horner gives us a walkthrough of using GemCutter's API from the command line , specifically relying upon his Boson command/task framework.
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In addition to a general desire to remove a dependency on Gemcutter, you might have dependencies on gems that are not on a publicly accessible gem repository.
To collect up all gems and place them into your app, run: bundle pack
When running bundle install in the future, Bundler will use packed gems, if available, in preference to gems available in other sources.
Conclusion
I hope these workflows have clarified the intent of Bundler 0.9 (and 1.0). During our work on earlier versions, …
…AWS:: S3 I decided to see what, if any, newer gems were available. A quick search of GemCutter revealed the not-so-imaginatively named S3 gem: with full support for European buckets and a nice, straightforward syntax I decided to give it a try.
One of the first things I tend to do when trying a new gem or plugin is to have a poke about in the source code to get a feel for how nice the code is, and while doing this with S3 I came across a custom storage module for Paperclip (and …