Ruby Gems, Rails Plugins and Hackfests

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Ruby-gem Ruby Gems

Ruby Gems are the premier ruby packaging system. It provides:

  • A standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries.
  • An easy to use tool for managing the installation of gem packages.
  • A gem server utility for serving gems from any machine where RubyGems is installed.


Railsplugin_thumb Rails Plugins

A Rails plugin is either an extension or a modification of the core framework. Plugins provide:

  • A way for developers to share bleeding-edge ideas without hurting the stable code base
  • A segmented architecture so that units of code can be fixed or updated on their own release schedule
  • An outlet for the core developers so that they don’t have to include every cool new feature under the sun

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HackfestRails Hackfests

The Rails hackfest is a chance for people to be rewarded for contributing source code to Ruby On Rails. The value of your contributions are accumulated and the results charted - those at the top of the charts get rewards. We have no new Hackfest competitions in the pipeline at the moment, but you can view the old ones here.


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