if ci_badges.map(&:color).detect { it != "green"} ☝️ let me know, as I may have missed the discord notification.
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👣 How will this project approach the September 2025 hostile takeover of RubyGems? 🚑️
I've summarized my thoughts in this blog post.
GemMine is intended to centralize the lifecycle of scaffolded Ruby gem fixtures:
create a temporary gem project for integration-style tests, run the scenario, and
tear the project down so test suites do not leave mined-out tmp/spec-process-*
workspaces behind.
The gem intentionally builds tiny fixture gems, not full application templates.
It writes the minimal gemspec/lib structure needed by Bundler and RubyGems, can
build and install that fixture into an isolated GEM_HOME, and can initialize a
local git repository for specs that exercise git sources.
| Tokens to Remember | |
|---|---|
| Works with JRuby | |
| Works with Truffle Ruby | |
| Works with MRI Ruby 4 | |
| Works with MRI Ruby 3 | |
| Support & Community | |
| Source | |
| Documentation | |
| Compliance | |
| Style | |
| Maintainer 🎖️ | |
... 💖 |
Compatible with MRI Ruby 3.2.0+, and concordant releases of JRuby, and TruffleRuby.
CI workflows and Appraisals are generated for MRI Ruby 3.2.0+.
This test floor is configured by ruby.test_minimum in .kettle-jem.yml and
may be higher than the gem's runtime compatibility floor when legacy Rubies are
not practical for the current toolchain.
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|---|---|
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Alternatively:
Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:
bundle add gem_mineIf bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:
gem install gem_mineGemMine does not keep global configuration. Callers provide the scaffold root
and, when installation is needed, the target gem_home.
By default, generated fixture gems are tiny, valid RubyGem packages with enough metadata for Bundler and RubyGems to build, install, and resolve them in tests:
- version:
"1.0.0" - author:
"Mr. Smith" - summary:
"summary" - license:
"MIT" - homepage:
"https://github.com/appraisal-rb/<gem-name>" - required Ruby:
">= 1.8.7"
Use GemMine from specs that need a throwaway Ruby gem project instead of
hand-rolling tmp/ paths in each suite.
process_root = File.join(project_root, "tmp", "spec-process-#{Process.pid}")
gem_home = File.join(process_root, "bundler")
build_root = File.join(process_root, "build")
scaffold = GemMine.scaffold(
"dummy",
root: File.join(build_root, "dummy"),
version: "1.0.0",
gem_home: gem_home
)
scaffold.built_gem_path
# => ".../tmp/spec-process-123/build/dummy/dummy-1.0.0.gem"
GemMine.clean(process_root)For git-source fixtures:
GemMine.scaffold(
"git_dummy",
root: File.join(build_root, "git_dummy"),
build: false,
install: false,
git: true
)While appraisal-rb tools are free software and will always be, the project would benefit immensely from some funding. Raising a monthly budget of... "dollars" would make the project more sustainable.
We welcome both individual and corporate sponsors! We also offer a wide array of funding channels to account for your preferences. Currently, Open Collective is our preferred funding platform.
If you're working in a company that's making significant use of appraisal-rb tools we'd appreciate it if you suggest to your company to become a appraisal-rb sponsor.
You can support the development of appraisal-rb tools via GitHub Sponsors, Liberapay, PayPal, Open Collective and Tidelift.
| 📍 NOTE |
|---|
| If doing a sponsorship in the form of donation is problematic for your company from an accounting standpoint, we'd recommend the use of Tidelift, where you can get a support-like subscription instead. |
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If you need some ideas of where to help, you could work on adding more code coverage, or if it is already 💯 (see below) check issues or PRs, or use the gem and think about how it could be better.
We so if you make changes, remember to update it.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for more detailed instructions.
See CONTRIBUTING.md.
Everyone interacting with this project's codebases, issue trackers,
chat rooms and mailing lists agrees to follow the .
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Also see GitLab Contributors: https://gitlab.com/appraisal-rb/gem_mine/-/graphs/main
This library follows for its public API where practical.
For most applications, prefer the Pessimistic Version Constraint with two digits of precision.
For example:
spec.add_dependency("gem_mine", "~> 0.0")📌 Is "Platform Support" part of the public API? More details inside.
Dropping support for a platform can be a breaking change for affected users. If a release changes supported platforms, it should be called out clearly in the changelog and versioned with that impact in mind.
To get a better understanding of how SemVer is intended to work over a project's lifetime, read this article from the creator of SemVer:
See CHANGELOG.md for a list of releases.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of
the MIT .
See LICENSE.md for the official copyright notice.
Copyright holders
- Copyright (c) 2025-2026 Peter H. Boling
Maintainers have teeth and need to pay their dentists. After getting laid off in an RIF in March, and encountering difficulty finding a new one, I began spending most of my time building open source tools. I'm hoping to be able to pay for my kids' health insurance this month, so if you value the work I am doing, I need your support. Please consider sponsoring me or the project.
To join the community or get help 👇️ Join the Discord.
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Many parts of this project are actively managed by a kettle-jem smart template utilizing StructuredMerge.org merge contracts.
Thanks for RTFM.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Package | gem_mine |
| Description | ⛏️ Provides helpers for setting up temporary scaffolded gem projects and reliably tearing them down after tests. |
| Homepage | https://github.com/appraisal-rb/gem_mine |
| Source | https://github.com/appraisal-rb/gem_mine/tree/v0.1.0 |
| License | MIT |
| Funding | https://github.com/sponsors/pboling, https://issuehunt.io/u/pboling, https://ko-fi.com/pboling, https://liberapay.com/pboling/donate, https://opencollective.com/appraisal-rb, https://patreon.com/galtzo, https://polar.sh/pboling, https://thanks.dev/u/gh/pboling, https://tidelift.com/funding/github/rubygems/gem_mine, https://www.buymeacoffee.com/pboling |