What is the current correct way to publish gems?

Question

The correct process of publishing gems seems to always be in flux, and it's been a while since I've done it. Is there an up to date set of best practices for bundling ruby libraries into gems and publishing them?

Answer 1

The best thing to learn how to publish gems is to browse the documentation on guides.rubygems.org.

Here are a few pointers:

• To learn the patterns to bundle a gem, read this article, or explore a gem example.
• The .gemspec file is a descriptor to build your gem. You can read the detailed specifications here.

Finally, build your gem named hola with:

gem build hola.gemspec

This will create a hola-0.0.1.gem file.

To publish your gem to rubygems.org (you’ll need a user account on rubygems.org first):

gem push hola-0.0.1.gem