Buckle Up, There’s a New Gem Server in Town: gem.coop

If you’re in the Ruby world you may have been following the RubyGems shenanigans of the last few weeks. They suffered a poorly communicated corporate led rug-pull, not all that dissimilar to the games Perforce has played over the last year or so. Amusingly, they also claimed it was for security purposes without providing any actual rationale supporting that claim.

There was some drama around RubyGems.org (seems like a classic commercial overstep on a community resource). And as a result there is now a new Gem se...

The drama never ends, but I am here to take a stand and do something about it.