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# November 2020 Monthly Update
- URL: https://rubycentral.org/news/november-2020-monthly-update/
- Published: 2020-12-17T22:19:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-11-28T23:39:42.000Z
- Author: Andre Arko
- Tags: Import 2022-11-28 15:39

Hello! Welcome to the monthly update. During November, our work was supported by [Zendesk](https://www.zendesk.com/?ref=rubycentral.org), [Stitch Fix](http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/?ref=rubycentral.org), [DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/?ref=rubycentral.org), and many others.

## ruby together news

In November, Ruby Together was supported by 41 different companies, including Ruby member [Zendesk](https://zendesk.com/?ref=rubycentral.org) and Sapphire member [Stripe](https://stripe.com/?ref=rubycentral.org). 1 company joined as a new member.

On top of those companies, Dan Milne signed up as a new developer member. In total, we were supported by 102 developer members. Thanks to all of our members for making everything that we do possible. <3

## rubygems & bundler news

In November, we worked on the [Bundler Version Locking RFC](https://github.com/rubygems/rfcs/pull/29?ref=rubycentral.org) that allows a user to specify a required Bundler version in the Gemfile/gemspec with a working [proof of concept](https://github.com/rubygems/rfcs/pull/29?ref=rubycentral.org#issuecomment-731333194). We also made improvements to platform support by enabling the `specific_platform` functionality by default, and decided to delay the change to resolve all Gemfile platforms automatically.

In addition to that, we made the following improvements and fixes:

- fixed a missing require issue. [#4036](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/4036?ref=rubycentral.org)
- fixed a couple of minor “Windows paths” issues. [#4038](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/4038?ref=rubycentral.org), [#4039](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/4039?ref=rubycentral.org)
- fixed gem specification `--platform`. [#4043](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/4043?ref=rubycentral.org)
- added an `--all-platforms` flag that optionally allows generating Windows binstubs from non-Windows platforms. [#3886](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/3886?ref=rubycentral.org)
- merged a PR to fix a bundle remove bug where it was removing comments. [#4045](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/4045?ref=rubycentral.org)
- merged a PR to support the new signin endpoints. [#3840](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/3840?ref=rubycentral.org)
- merged a PR to improve the `-C` flag to gem build. [#3983](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/3983?ref=rubycentral.org)
- added a fix to slightly improve some “**gem not found**” error messages. [#4019](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/4019?ref=rubycentral.org)
- fixed an intermittent spec failure. [#4060](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/4060?ref=rubycentral.org)
- fixed an issue with changelog generation. [#4059](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/4059?ref=rubycentral.org)
- fixed an issue with nested bundler invocations. [#4063](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/4062?ref=rubycentral.org)
- fixed a discrepancy between executing with or without bundle exec. [#4063](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/4063?ref=rubycentral.org)
- added more descriptive errors about default network errors. [#4061](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/4061?ref=rubycentral.org)
- fixed a CI issue that appeared under Windows. [#4068](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/4068?ref=rubycentral.org)
- merged a tweak to the bundle gem default skeleton. [#4066](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/4066?ref=rubycentral.org)
- extended `gem` DSL with a `force_ruby_platform` option. [#4049](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/4049?ref=rubycentral.org)

In November, [RubyGems & Bundler](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems?ref=rubycentral.org) gained [58 new commits](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/compare/master@%7B2020-11-01%7D...master@%7B2020-11-30%7D?ref=rubycentral.org), contributed by 10 authors. There were 816 additions and 426 deletions across 79 files.

## rubygems.org news

This month, we coordinated with Fastly support to enable Globalsign certs and AAAA records in our TLS config. We updated [RubyGems CLI gem signin](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/3840?ref=rubycentral.org) according to changes requested in a review and also made the following fixes and improvements:

- added a new way to match RubyGems versions using the `build-arg` in docker image. [#2548](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/pull/2548?ref=rubycentral.org)
- fixed failing tests in `shoulda-matchers` update and reported an issue of invalid objects should `belong_to` tests on `shoulda-matchers` repo. [#1375](https://github.com/thoughtbot/shoulda-matchers/issues/1375?ref=rubycentral.org)
- investigated `DelegationError` for ownership records with nil `user_id`.
- updated our DMARC policy to ensure that spoofed emails with [rubygems.org](https://rubygems.org/?ref=rubycentral.org) in sender get marked as spam.
- worked on a PR to resolve a HackerOne report, disallowing duplicate canonical version numbers. [#2559](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/pull/2559?ref=rubycentral.org)
- read the privacy policies of other package manager websites and researched the requirements for CCPA and GDPR.
- added `Pagerduty` integration for Cloudwatch ALB alerts.

As always, we continue to fix bugs, review and merge PR’s and reply to support tickets.

In November, [RubyGems.org](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org?ref=rubycentral.org) gained [23 new commits](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/compare/master@%7B2020-11-01%7D...master@%7B2020-11-30%7D?ref=rubycentral.org), contributed by 3 authors. There were 89 additions and 15 deletions across 12 files.

## budget & expenses

In November, we saw $7,839.53 in total income, and spent a total of $12,992.05.

- Stripe Payment Processing Fees $274.76
- Employee Related $500.60
- General & Administrative $115.43
- IT & Software $737.26
- Professional Fees $2,388.00
- 59.8 Hours of development work at $8,975.00

Until next time,  
Irene, André and the Ruby Together team