Polish Your Gem

Best practices for those who maintain a Ruby gem. How to document code, keep up a changelog, and market a gem. Additionally, free services that make gem maintenance easier. It's not about how to make gems, it about how to make them better.

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1. Polish Your Gem flickr.com/photos/the_justified_sinner/8656532776 @AaronLasseigne
2. Off to a Good Start flickr.com/photos/53370644@N06/4976494944
3. Jeweler vs
4. vs
5. Being a Good Citizen flickr.com/photos/mandajuice/562954687
6. LICENSE.txt
7. http://choosealicense.com
8. Documentation
9. Reference
10. http://yardoc.org
13. Guides
15. http://rubydoc.info
16. Versioning
17. SemVer SemVer SemVer SemVer
18. http://semver.org
20. Update Dependencies
21. Free!
23. CHANGELOG.md
26. Tests
27. COVERALLS Free!
30. Travis Free!
31. .travis.yml
33. Kindness is a Virtue
37. If You Build It, They’ll Ignore You
38. There are 57 trillion Ruby gems currently available. (Actually ~76k)
39. http://www.rubyflow.com
40. http://rubydaily.org
41. http://ruby5.envylabs.com
42. http://reddit.com/r/ruby http://reddit.com/r/rails
43. http://twitter.com
44. Don’t be afraid to promote.
46. Contributors Welcome flickr.com/photos/ableman/283139915
47. CONTRIBUTING.md
48. CODEOFCONDUCT.md
49. http://batsov.com/rubocop
50. Plugins available for most editors.
51. Integrates into Guard.
52. Works with CI.
53. Tests
54. Allow for custom .rspec files.
55. http://guardgem.org
56. Allow for custom .guardrc files.
57. Final Advice flickr.com/photos/fanz/3613555898
58. Free!
60. Make things you actually use.
61. Use the buddy system.