Configuring GitHub to automatically build new ruby gems

Question

I just added a new gem to GitHub. Check it out:

http://github.com/esilverberg/google_otg

Unfortunately, it cannot be installed via the command:

gem install esilverberg-google_otg

And this is because it is not showing up in:

http://gems.github.com/list.html

So it is not being built by GitHub. I followed their really simple instructions:

• I checked the "RubyGem" checkbox in my project
• I have a .gemspec, created by Jeweler.
• I ran this script to simulate their environment and it was OK
• I have waited > 15 min

Can someone tell me why this is not being built by GitHub? Anecdotally, about 50% of the gems I use I have been unable to actually install from GitHub - I end up having to install from rubyforge.org. This leads me to believe there is something a lot of people are missing.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Revving the version seemed to cause GitHub to finally build my gem. Yay!

Answer 2

There's a link when you reload your project's github page on the right [the gem] to "rebuild gem" if you don't want to do the version bump. Then it takes a few minutes to show up :) -r