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The Ruby Workshop

You're reading from   The Ruby Workshop Develop powerful applications by writing clean, expressive code with Ruby and Ruby on Rails

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838642365
Length 544 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dániel Szabó Dániel Szabó
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Akshat Paul Akshat Paul
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Peter Philips Peter Philips
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Cheyne Wallace Cheyne Wallace
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Writing and Running Ruby Programs 2. Ruby Data Types and Operations FREE CHAPTER 3. Program Flow Ruby Methods 5. Object-Oriented programming with Ruby 6. Modules and Mixins 7. Introduction to Ruby Gems 8. Debugging with Ruby 9. Ruby Beyond the Basics l 10. Ruby Beyond the Basics ll 11. Introduction to Ruby on Rails l 12. Introduction to Ruby on Rails ll Appendix

Creating a Ruby Gem

As covered in Chapter 7, Introduction to Ruby Gems, a gem is a way for Ruby to package and distribute Ruby programs and libraries. So far, we have been using many open source Ruby gems, which has a positive impact on the speed of development.

In this section, we will learn to create a Ruby gem. Also, RubyGems is a package manager for the Ruby programming language and comes with tools baked in by default, which makes it really easy to create a gem and distribute it.

Let's jump right in to creating a simple Ruby gem.

Before you create your first file for your gem, you must make sure to find a suitable name for your gem. RubyGems has official documentation for naming conventions and it is advised to use this for improved programming experiences.

Note

You can refer to this naming convention at https://packt.live/2Bcz1dN.

Exercise 10.07: Creating Your Own Ruby Gem

In this exercise, we will be creating our own Ruby gem, before installing it...

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