{"id":25501,"date":"2016-10-24T10:04:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T10:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.railscarma.com\/how-to-create-a-ruby-gem\/"},"modified":"2024-01-10T10:42:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T10:42:28","slug":"how-to-create-a-ruby-gem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.railscarma.com\/fr\/blog\/articles-techniques\/how-to-create-a-ruby-gem\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create a Ruby Gem"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ruby Gems or \u201cgem\u201d is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries. It is easy to manage and install to your system and it can be used by various rails applications.<\/p>\n

Every RoR developer might have customised a gem at least once in his career, but not each one of them has actually, created a gem. Here, I am going to give a basic idea about how to create a new gem and how to publish it.<\/p>\n

Kick off<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Before starting please make sure that you are using the latest ruby version. RVM is really useful in this case;
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How to name your Gem?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Don\u2019t blindly give a random name to your gem. Please take care of the following;
Every dash represents a structure<\/strong> (folder, module) immersion
Every underscore represents a joining in the class name<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some examples:<\/p>\n

gem new_test_gem<\/p>\n