Ruby Facets

RubyGems.org cuts response time in half In the first episode of Ruby Facets, I talked about Ruby Together; a membership-based trade association that supports the ongoing development and maintenance of essential Ruby infrastructure. Recently, the long-term support of Ruby Together yielded a clear benefit for Rubyists around the world: the RubyGems.org response times around the world was cut in half thanks to the deployment of CDN mirrors. There are a lot more plans to improve RubyGems.org including elasticsearch, metrics for gems, and an ambitious merge between RubyGems and Bundler. André Arko who founded Ruby Together in March 2015 gave a talk a EuRuKo 2016 in Sofia, Bulgaria about the great work accomplished thanks to the support of Ruby Together in the past year. If you don't know the incredible work that goes into maintaining RubyGems.org and Bundler, and how sad it is that so few companies that benefit from Ruby are willing to support it financially. One of the great benefits of Ruby's maturity as a commu