What good ruby gem sources would you recommend, besides http://gems.rubyforge.org/ and http://gems.github.com/? It seems that RubyForge is missing most of the gems I look for these times...
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As far as I know, those two are it, with the primary being rubyforge, since that's the only source that a stock RubyGems install will search? As popular as github is getting, gem developers still can't yet assume that github has been added as a gem source, and usually provide specific instructions like
gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
gem install person-gemname
or
gem install person-gemname --source http://gems.github.com
UPDATE: gems.rubyforge.org, gems.github.com, and gemcutter.org have all been replaced by rubygems.org
Pistos
2008-11-06 13:53:26
See also http://gemcutter.org/ which has sprung up since you asked this question. It bills itself as "the next generation of gem hosting for the Ruby community. Instantly publish your gems and install them." (I myself don't use it [yet].)
Pistos
2009-10-02 14:36:59
GemCutter.org has now become "the standard" repository for gems. Github is discontinuing its gem hosting, so go "gem install gemcutter" and then "gem tumble" and you should be rolling.
revgum
2009-11-08 15:09:46
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Basically I agree that even if you are hosting projects on github or elsewhere all stable releases should be on RubyForge. The main reason is all the dependancies on gems, and it makes me happy when they are all in one place.
Magnus Holm wrote about this http://judofyr.net/posts/dont-forget-about-rubyforge.html
and it was picked up by others as well http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/08/gems-from-rubyforge-and-github
danmayer
2008-11-09 04:03:56
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It would be good to add a RubyForge mirror - however I cannot find one that is up and RubyForge now (10-june-09) is down...
Kris
2009-06-10 11:41:25