rubygems VS RubyGems

Compare rubygems vs RubyGems and see what are their differences.

rubygems

Library packaging and distribution for Ruby. (by rubygems)

RubyGems

The Ruby community's gem hosting service. (by rubygems)
Scout Monitoring - Rennaisance engineers rejoice! 1 gem 5 min to app monitoring
5-minute onboarding. No sales team. Devs in the support channels. No DevOps team required. Get the free app insights every engineer deserves with Scout Monitoring.
www.scoutapm.com
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InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
www.influxdata.com
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rubygems RubyGems
214 25
3,575 2,304
0.7% 0.3%
9.9 9.8
2 days ago about 23 hours ago
Ruby Ruby
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

rubygems

Posts with mentions or reviews of rubygems. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-06-07.
  • Effortless Code Conventions Review for Pull Request Changes
    6 projects | dev.to | 7 Jun 2024
    source 'https://rubygems.org' git_source(:github) do |repo_name| repo_name = "#{repo_name}/#{repo_name}" unless repo_name.include?("/") "https://github.com/#{repo_name}.git" end gem 'pronto' gem 'oj' gem 'pronto-rubocop', require: false gem 'pronto-scss', require: false gem 'pronto-eslint', require: false gem 'pronto-brakeman', require: false gem 'pronto-rails_best_practices', require: false
  • Puppet 8 readiness with Onceover
    3 projects | dev.to | 6 Jun 2024
    # Gemfile source "https://rubygems.org" gem 'puppet', '~> 8.4' gem 'onceover', '~> 3.22'
  • RVM Ruby 2.6.0 — built with custom openssl version on Ubuntu 22.04
    2 projects | dev.to | 26 Apr 2024
    Fetching source index from https://rubygems.org/ Could not verify the SSL certificate for https://rubygems.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/nokogiri-1.13.10-x86_64-linux.gemspec.rz. There is a chance you are experiencing a man-in-the-middle attack, but most likely your system doesn't have the CA certificates needed for verification. For information about OpenSSL certificates, see http://bit.ly/ruby-ssl. To connect without using SSL, edit your Gemfile sources and change 'https' to 'http'
  • Building a Sinatra app in Ruby
    1 project | dev.to | 9 Apr 2024
    # Gemfile source 'https://rubygems.org' gem 'dotenv' gem 'json' gem 'pry' gem 'rake' gem 'sassc' gem 'sinatra' gem 'sinatra-activerecord' gem 'sinatra-contrib' gem 'sinatra-static-assets' group :development do gem 'foreman' gem 'rubocop' gem 'sqlite3', '~> 1.3', '>= 1.3.11' end group :test do gem 'rack-test' gem 'rspec', require: 'spec' end group :production do gem 'pg' end
  • How to deploy a Rails 7 app to Heroku
    1 project | dev.to | 18 Mar 2024
    mkdir myapp && cd myapp echo "source 'https://rubygems.org'" > Gemfile echo "gem 'rails', '7.1.3.2'" >> Gemfile bundle install bundle exec rails new . --force --database=postgresql -j=esbuild -c=tailwind
  • Test Driving a Rails API - Part One
    11 projects | dev.to | 11 Mar 2024
    With Ruby installed, you can now manage your RubyGems with the gem command. Install the Rails gem or update if you already have it.
  • Google ZX – A tool for writing better scripts
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2024
    source 'https://rubygems.org'
  • Building a Christmas-Themed Chatbot: My ServerlessGuru Hackathon Journey
    5 projects | dev.to | 17 Dec 2023
    # frozen_string_literal: true source 'https://rubygems.org' ruby '>= 3.2.2' gem 'aws-sdk-bedrockruntime'
  • Finding your way around Rails code
    2 projects | dev.to | 11 Dec 2023
    RubyGems Environment: - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 3.4.10 - RUBY VERSION: 3.2.2 (2023-03-30 patchlevel 53) [arm64-darwin22] - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /Users/michaeldaross/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.2.2/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0 - USER INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /Users/michaeldaross/.gem/ruby/3.2.0 - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /Users/michaeldaross/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.2.2/bin/ruby - GIT EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/git - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /Users/michaeldaross/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.2.2/bin - SPEC CACHE DIRECTORY: /Users/michaeldaross/.gem/specs - SYSTEM CONFIGURATION DIRECTORY: /Users/michaeldaross/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.2.2/etc - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS: - ruby - arm64-darwin-22 - GEM PATHS: - /Users/michaeldaross/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.2.2/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0 - /Users/michaeldaross/.gem/ruby/3.2.0 - GEM CONFIGURATION: - :update_sources => true - :verbose => true - :backtrace => true - :bulk_threshold => 1000 - "gem" => "--no-document" - REMOTE SOURCES: - https://rubygems.org/ ...
  • Can,t install MySQL2 gem
    3 projects | /r/rails | 8 Dec 2023
    Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. current directory: /usr/share/rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.5/gems/mysql2-0.5.5/ext/mysql2 /usr/share/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.7.5/bin/ruby -I /usr/share/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.7.5/lib/ruby/2.7.0 -r ./siteconf20231208-2396-1amnwp6.rb extconf.rb checking for rb_absint_size()... yes checking for rb_absint_singlebit_p()... yes checking for rb_gc_mark_movable()... yes checking for rb_wait_for_single_fd()... yes checking for rb_enc_interned_str() in ruby.h... no ----- Cannot find library dir(s) /home/julio/.rvm/usr/lib ----- *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may need configuration options. Provided configuration options: --with-opt-dir --without-opt-dir --with-opt-include --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include --with-opt-lib --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib --with-make-prog --without-make-prog --srcdir=. --curdir --ruby=/usr/share/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.7.5/bin/$(RUBY_BASE_NAME) --with-openssl-dir --with-openssl-dir --with-openssl-include --without-openssl-include=${openssl-dir}/include --with-openssl-lib --without-openssl-lib=${openssl-dir}/lib To see why this extension failed to compile, please check the mkmf.log which can be found here: /usr/share/rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.5/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.7.0/mysql2-0.5.5/mkmf.log extconf failed, exit code 1 Gem files will remain installed in /usr/share/rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.5/gems/mysql2-0.5.5 for inspection. Results logged to /usr/share/rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.5/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.7.0/mysql2-0.5.5/gem_make.out An error occurred while installing mysql2 (0.5.5), and Bundler cannot continue. Make sure that `gem install mysql2 -v '0.5.5' --source 'https://rubygems.org/'` succeeds before bundling.

RubyGems

Posts with mentions or reviews of RubyGems. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rubygems and RubyGems you can also consider the following projects:

dotenv - A Ruby gem to load environment variables from `.env`.

Bundler

nvm - Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions

gemdiff - Find source repositories for ruby gems. Open, compare, and update outdated gem versions

Nokogiri - Nokogiri (鋸) makes it easy and painless to work with XML and HTML from Ruby.

Gem in a Box - Really simple rubygem hosting

verdaccio - 📦🔐 A lightweight Node.js private proxy registry

gemstash - A RubyGems.org cache and private gem server

spaCy - 💫 Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python

passwordless - 🗝 Authentication for your Rails app without the icky-ness of passwords

PrismJS - Lightweight, robust, elegant syntax highlighting.

SharpZipLib - #ziplib is a Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 library written entirely in C# for the .NET platform.

Scout Monitoring - Rennaisance engineers rejoice! 1 gem 5 min to app monitoring
5-minute onboarding. No sales team. Devs in the support channels. No DevOps team required. Get the free app insights every engineer deserves with Scout Monitoring.
www.scoutapm.com
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InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
www.influxdata.com
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