Former Rubygems Mayor Founded Alternative Gem Cooperative Repository

Five former accompanying repositories Rubygems and Bundler, including owner trademark Bundler, announced about creating an alternative project- gem Cooperative , which is controlled by the community and uses an open control model created with an eye on the project on the project homebrew . At the current stage, the project has been launched by a GEM core containing all packages from the Rubygems.org catalog and synchronized with it. Complete compatibility with the RubyGEMS package control system and the dependency manager bundler .

the server is still operating in the mirror mode of the mirrors Rubygems.org, and the functionality for publishing bags is planned to be added to the coming months. To switch to an alternative server, it is enough to replace it in gemfile Source parameter with “https.org” on “https://gem.coop.”

The master of the Gem Cooperative, the mayor -to -handle were removed from work on Rubygems after the incident with a non -profit company Ruby Central , which oversaw the RubyConf conferences and was responsible for maintaining infrastructure for the work of the Rubygems.org service. In September, Ruby Central gained full control over Github-re-repositories, which develops rubygems , rubygems.org and bundler and decided to exclude all external mayor. Consultations with lawyers and based on the results of an audit of infrastructure safety. As the reason for the concentration of management in the same hands, on safety and protection from the class of “Supply Chain” class. Ruby Central is trying to minimalize access to repositories and exclude the presence of a complete privileged access to repositories of people who are not accountable and not a direct responsibility.

In addition to the forcedly excluded Mayners, among the founders of the alternative service Gem Cooperative, Helen Dash is present
(ELLEN DASH), which in September quit