Minegems

Luca GuidiRuby Social Club – Rome, Mar 4th 2011

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

WHO?


@jodosha



WHAT?


Private hosting for your hidden gems.


It helps to protect and distribute your closed

source code.


Itʼs useful for private gem forking.


It allows to get ride of Rails plugins.


WHY?


I tried to solve my own problem.


WHEN?


I developed this project in my spare time.


Having less time enforces you to focus on your

goals.


Itʼs all about efficacy, rather than efficiency.


HOW?


It works like RubyGems.


You can use as global gem source..$ gem sources -a \

http://user:[email protected]




..or in your Gemfile.

source “http://user:[email protected]”




It uses internal namespacing.


It can solve internal and external dependencies.


ARCHITECTURE


Itʼs a Rails application which hosts a Sinatra one.


All the gems are hosted in a private Amazon S3

bucket.

















The actual workflow is slow because of the double download.


The next step is to bypass the server at the response

time.


In order to make the indices access faster,

it uses GridFS.










It uses Devise for authentication.


Devise is a Warden customization, which is

build on top ofRack-Mount.


The Rails app uses session based authentication.


The Sinatra app uses HTTP based

authentication.


The authorization part is delegated to a custom

Rack middleware which uses Redis.


It grants access to the underline structure and

itʼs responsible for routing policies.


WHATʼS NEXT?


Private beta testing.


Command line interface gem.


Q&A


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