rubygems

Álvaro Fernández-Alonso Araluce in ruby, gems, open-source, tutorial, building-a-gem-serie, rubygems, maintenance

08 April 2026 · 6 min read

Publishing, Versioning, and the Real Life of a Gem

Final article in the series about building Ruby gems. We’ve demystified gems, seen their anatomy, built an API wrapper, and tested everything. Now it’s time for the final step: putting it out in the world. From your folder to RubyGems You have...

Álvaro Fernández-Alonso Araluce in ruby, gems, open-source, tutorial, building-a-gem-serie, bundler, rubygems

05 April 2026 · 6 min read

Anatomy of a Gem - What's Inside the Box

Second article in the series about building Ruby gems. In the previous article we talked about breaking the mental barrier. Now let’s open the box and see what’s inside. One command and you have a gem Seriously, open your terminal and type: bundle...