The Joy of Gems: Cooking up Rails Plugins

Posted by Paul McMahon 13/01/2012 at 08h25

Last night I presented at Cookpad’s Tokyo Rails event. This installment had the largest turn out I’ve seen so far, with at least forty participants. I think word’s gotten out that Tokyo Rails has the best food of any Ruby group in the city (and great people too)! This time we had some great home cooked Korean food.

My presentation was about converting Rails plugins to gems. Fortuitously, there was an announcement last week that vendor/plugins will be deprecated, and gem plugins would become the standard way of building a Rails plugin. So the timing of my presentation worked out great.

Unfortunately, I don’t think my slides showed up so well on the projector. I’ve attached them below, so if anyone is interested, please have a look at them.