Lapidary: The Art of Gemcutting

Gemcutter is now the central RubyGem host for the community, with over 10,000 gems and over 10 million gem downloads and counting. Learn why Gemcutter won the great RubyGem hosting battle of 2009 and about the challenges the site faces in 2010 and beyond. Discover how instant code deployment with Gemcutter is changing the way not only Rubyists develop and release software, but other open source communities as well.

Given at RailsConf 2010. http://en.oreilly.com/rails2010

Transcript

1. gemcutter: the art of lapidary
   nick quaranto
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2. @qrush
   nick@quaran.to
   litanyagainstfear.com
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3. 3/49 - 7%
   

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4. 4/49 - 9%
   

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5. 5/49 - 11%
   

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6. 6/49 - 13%
   

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7. 7/49 - 15%
   

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9. 9/49 - 19%
   

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10. status
    others
    roadmap
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11. status
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12. some stats
    30 million downloads
    63,000 gem versions
    47 contributors
    920 GB transferred last month
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13. downloads per month
    january: 4,094,629
    february: 4,396,202
    march: 4,765,550
    april: 5,117,016
    may: 5,211,337
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14. more stats
    average growth per month: 223,341
    estimations per month by 2011:
    linear: 7,545,076
    logarithmic: 5,817,165
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15. API
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16. # git show 534af7f:spec/api_spec.rb
    describe "Gemcutter API" do
    it "should work" do
    get '/'
    @response.should =~ /gemcutter/
    end
    end
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17. API history: rubygems
    server
    18 endpoints
    S3, CloudFront: GET /gems/rails-
    2.3.8.gem
    modern indexes: GET /latest_specs.4.8.gz
    legacy indexes: GET /yaml
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18. API history: v0
    9 endpoints
    GET /gems/rails.json
    POST /gems
    POST /gems/rails/migrate
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19. API history: v1
    14 endpoints
    POST /api/v1/gems
    GET /api/v1/gems/rails.json
    GET /api/v1/gems/rack/owners.json
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20. gem yank
    $ gem yank bills -v 0.0.1
    Yanking gem from RubyGems.org...
    Successfully yanked gem: bills (0.0.1)
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21. gem yank --undo
    $ gem yank bills --undo -v 0.0.1
    Unyanking gem from RubyGems.org...
    Successfully unyanked gem: bills (0.0.1)
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22. gem webhooks
    $ gem webhook rails --add http://example.com
    Successfully created webhook for rails to http://example.com
    $ gem webhook --global --add http://something.net
    Adding webhook...
    Successfully created webhook for all gems to http://something.ne
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23. gem webhooks: fire!
    $ gem webhook rack --fire http://example.com
    Test firing webhook...
    Successfully deployed webhook for rack to http://example.com
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24. ideas for gem webhooks
    tarballer
    distributed tester
    gemfiler
    changelogr
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25. downloads revamp
    postgres => redis
    30 million rows => 100 MB of RAM
    migration task, search results need
    download counts
    almost done!
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26. rubygems integration
    default source as of 1.3.6
    gem push, gem owner in
    gem yank, gem webhook slated by 1.4
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27. status
    charging forward
    gem yank, webhook are fun
    gemcutter may have won, not done yet
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28. emulation
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29. 29/49 - 60%
    

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31. 31/49 - 64%
    

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35. 35/49 - 72%
    

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36. 36/49 - 74%
    

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37. the theory
    once consuming is easy, publishing is the
    pain point
    solved it: gem push
    time to catch up!
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38. motion
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39. API
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40. forked gems
    you.gemcutter.org
    your own sandbox, a blank index
    production quality gems on rubygems.org
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41. better indexes
    try gem install -V
    dependency resolution?
    support bundler, rip, rpg?
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42. download stats
    access historical info
    per gem stats page
    bring over rubyforge data
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43. distribution
    gem mirror needs an overhaul
    torrents?
    A-Z bundles?
    snapshots?
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44. SVN
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45. SVN
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46. github.com/rubygems/rubygems
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47. support
    help.rubygems.org for community support
    knowledge base, direct questions to core
    team
    before stackoverflow, please
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48. wrapup
    moving forward with new features and fixes
    get the community involved (again)
    learn from other services and platforms
    around for the foreseeable future of ruby
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