#303 Publishing a Gem pro

Nov 28, 2011 | 11 minutes | Tools

In this second part on making a gem, you will learn how to publish a gem by releasing it to rubygems.org, testing it through Travis CI, documenting it on RubyDoc.info, and advertising it on various sites.

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Eric Teubert almost 13 years ago

Impressive job! Keep up the good work :)

Dan Milne almost 13 years ago

Thanks for this Ryan.

In your 'how I test' presentation, you use factory_girl_rails and guard-respec. Where do they belong in this setup? The Gemfile refers to the gemspec file, so should they go in the gem spec file? And can you use instructions like ,

:require => false if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /darwin/i

Brendon Murphy almost 13 years ago

Thanks for sharing this. It was really timely and helpful, as is often the case.

One thing to point about about using the :git repo notation in your Gemfile: it's usually not a great idea to do this if you don't control the repo. Since the rubygems service controls versioning more tightly, you can bet that when new code is released, the version will bump. However, the same cannot be said for master branches on github, which could lead to nasty surprises when you bundle install.

hisea almost 13 years ago

Thanks for this great video. I published my first gem after watching this video.

https://github.com/hisea/mobile_rails

Johnathan Pulos almost 13 years ago

Thanks Ryan. Your videos are amazing! I also published my first gem called API Key Maker. Check it out at RubyGems.org.

victor hazbun anuff over 12 years ago

Great episode, was really useful, I published my first gem named Milo, it is a wrapper for the eBay Milo API. Thanks Ryan.

Anna Shetty almost 7 years ago

This is so irritating. I can find anything on this website. No fan-club registration info anywhere.