RubyGems.org Funding Model & A New Path For Community-Led Growth

If you build with Ruby, join us in keeping RubyGems.org, RubyGems, and Bundler secure and sustainable for years to come. Contribute here or share this with your company leadership. At Baltic Ruby in June, I delivered a keynote on building sustainable open source through the lens of RubyGems.org. What struck me most was how many attendees didn’t realize that Ruby Central, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the Ruby ecosystem, is responsible for maintaining RubyGems. RubyGems.org powers over 1,500 gem requests per second, supports billions of downloads per month, and underpins nearly every Ruby application in the world, from one-person startups to large enterprises like GitHub.