Ruby packages: chaos and confusion

January 31, 2010

In October of last year, someone built a new RubyGems hosting site called Gemcutter. Everyone liked it so much that GitHub decided to stop offering RubyGem hosting, and point people at Gemcutter instead.
Then the maintainer of RubyGems decided to make Gemcutter the default repository for gems when you install RubyGems.
Then RubyForge decided to get rid [...]

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