Chapter 29. Package Your Programs as Gems
Once you get past the occasional pet project or the odd bit of experimental programming, there are really only two kinds of software projects: those that ship and those that no one cares about. Shipping software, whether to paying customers or to a grateful open source community, is the ultimate goal of virtually every programmer.
In this chapter we will look at Ruby gems, the Ruby solution to packaging up your masterpiece so that it not only goes out the door, but also arrives on your user’s system with all the fragile bits intact. We’ll start with a brief look at how gems work from the point of view of a user. From there we will dive right into the details of building your own gem. We will also look ...
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