How do I run a gem server like rubyforge?
Don’t forget to check out the easy answer for running a simple gem server. But is is also fairly easy to serve gems from static files on an existing web server. Here’s what you need to do. • Create a directory in the public files area of your web server (we will call that directory BASEDIR in the following instructions). • Create the subdirectory BASEDIR/gems. • Copy any gems you wish to serve into the BASEDIR/gems subdirectory. • Run the generate_index gem command in order to generate the yaml and yaml.Z files needed by the RubyGems client.
