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by Eric Hodel.
Original Post: Recent Gems and Gem::Specification#description=
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Jim Weirich provides a recent gems RSS feed that will put the most recently uploaded gems in your favorite RSS feed reader. Unfortunately it needs some help. The body of each gem's entry is filled in from the the gemspec description field which some Gem authors neglect to fill in.
Its really easy to fill in the description field of your gem:
spec = Gem::Specification.new do |s|
s.name = 'mogilefs-client'
s.version = '1.1.0'
s.summary = 'A Ruby MogileFS client'
# Just add this line right here!
s.description = 'A Ruby MogileFS client.
MogileFS is a distributed filesystem written by Danga Interactive.
This client supports NFS mode and has untested support for HTTP mode.'
s.author = 'Eric Hodel'
s.email = 'eric@robotcoop.com'
# ...
end
If you haven't filled in your gem's description please do so now so it shows up in your next release. Currently I see several gems with interesting names in the feed but without a description I'm not that interested in looking at them. They might not be as cool as their names sound.
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