Gem Check: writing better Ruby gems

At SouthEastRuby, in Nashville, Tennessee, United States

This talk presents a checklist on how to write Ruby gems for humans, including such aspects as API design, architecture, and documentation.

Ruby gem is just a piece of code wrapped into a package, isn’t it? Yes, technically.

On the other hand, we should think of a gem as a piece of code written for others to use. And that’s what makes writing gems more than just a mechanical process.

I’d like to share my personal checklist on how to write code for humans, including such aspects as API design, architecture, and documentation (because any code is useless without docs).

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Irina Nazarova CEO at Evil Martians

Evil Martians is a developer tools consultancy founded in 2006. Creators of PostCSS, imgproxy, and 100+ open source projects with 25 billion downloads.