Take a look at where we're headed.
Focus Areas
Today, Ruby Together is committed to improving the three most widely-used core Ruby tools:
- Bundler, the Ruby dependency manager, used by every Ruby project to manage and install gems
- RubyGems, the code that makes it possible to create gems in the first place
- RubyGems.org, the website that provides free hosting for public gems
Upcoming Projects
As time and funding permits, the Ruby Together team will:
- Roll out a new gem index that will make installing gems two to ten times faster than today
- Migrate all of RubyGems.org to the Fastly CDN, providing dramatic speed improvements when downloading gems and gem data
- Build a gem caching server to easily allow data centers and offices to cache local copies of the gems they need, whether public or private
- Improve RubyGems.org, adding search, statistics, and more gem information to every page
And there will be more! We start new projects based on community need and Ruby Together's available funding.
Fundraising Progress
We have ambitious fundraising goals, and as we hit them we will kick off even bigger projects:
- Create a public Ruby ecosystem analytics dashboard, including Ruby version usage, Bundler version usage, and dramatically expanded statistics for each gem
- Merge Bundler and RubyGems to stop bugs due to mismatched versions forever
- Expand RubyBench.org into a public benchmark for every commit of Bundler, Rails, and Ruby itself
When we hit $35k per month, we'll not only have developers maintaining every core tool, we'll have someone working to improve those tools full time as well. When we hit $50k per month, we'll hire a second full-time developer to focus on maintaining and improving Rails and Ruby itself.
Ruby needs this, and your help is critical to get it done.