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February 2023 Monthly Update


Hello! Welcome to the monthly update. During February, our work was supported by Shopify, Zendesk and many others.

Ruby Central News

In February, Ruby Central's open source work was supported by 35 different companies, including Ruby member Zendesk and Ruby Shield sponsor Shopify.

In total, we were supported by 124 developer members. Thanks to all of our members for making everything that we do possible. <3

RubyGems News

This month in RubyGems, we released RubyGems 3.4.7 and Bundler 2.4.7.

The following improvements and fixes are included in these releases (see the changelog for more information):

Other improvements we worked on this month that weren't included in the February release are:

In February, RubyGems gained 108 new commits, contributed by 16 authors. There were 1,744 additions and 217 deletions across 100 files.

RubyGems.org News

This month, we made significant progress on the backend admin dashboard. We implemented robust auditing of all changes and added support for resetting users' MFA, blocking a user, and deleting webhooks.

admin dashboard

We announced the deprecation of the dependency API, and we plan to implement brownouts and remove the endpoint entirely. We also migrated all RDS instances to be managed by Terraform and tested the migration of managed node groups on the rubygems.org EKS cluster.

In addition to these updates, RubyGems.org saw several bug fixes and updates, some of which include:

In February, RubyGems.org gained 209 new commits, contributed by 17 authors. There were 7,602 additions and 1,071 deletions across 273 files.

Ruby Ecosystem News

Here we outline additional exciting updates made to other projects in the Ruby Ecosystem.

New: Ruby SSL Check

As always, we continue to fix bugs, review and merge PRs and reply to support tickets.

Total Spent

In February we completed 978 hours of development work @$150/hour, and spent $146,653.05.

Thank you

Thank you to all the contributors of RubyGems and RubyGems.org for this month! Your contributions are greatly appreciated, and we are grateful for your support.

Contributors to RubyGems:

Contributors to RubyGems.org:

March 20, 2023


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