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appraisal-rb Logo by Aboling0, CC BY-SA 4.0

⛏️ GemMine

Version GitHub tag (latest SemVer) License: MIT Downloads Rank CodeCov Test Coverage Coveralls Test Coverage QLTY Test Coverage QLTY Maintainability CI Heads CI Runtime Dependencies @ HEAD CI Current CI Truffle Ruby CI JRuby Deps Locked Deps Unlocked CI Test Coverage CI Style Apache SkyWalking Eyes License Compatibility Check

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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.

🌻 Synopsis Galtzo FLOSS Logo by Aboling0, CC BY-SA 4.0 ruby-lang Logo, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Ruby Visual Identity Team, CC BY-SA 2.5

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.

💡 Info you can shake a stick at

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Works with Truffle Ruby Truffle Ruby 24.2 Compat Truffle Ruby 25.0 Compat Truffle Ruby current Compat
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Compliance License: MIT Apache license compatibility: Category A 📄ilo-declaration-img Security Policy Contributor Covenant 2.1 SemVer 2.0.0
Style Enforced Code Style Linter Keep-A-Changelog 1.0.0 Gitmoji Commits Compatibility appraised by: appraisal2
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Compatibility

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.

🚚 Amazing test matrix was brought to you by 🔎 appraisal2 🔎 and the color 💚 green 💚
👟 Check it out! github.com/appraisal-rb/appraisal2

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✨ Installation

Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:

bundle add gem_mine

If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:

gem install gem_mine

⚙️ Configuration

GemMine 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"

🔧 Basic Usage

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
)

🦷 FLOSS Funding

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.

Open Collective for Individuals

Support us with a monthly donation and help us continue our activities. [Become a backer]

NOTE: kettle-readme-backers updates this list every day, automatically.

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Open Collective for Organizations

Become a sponsor and get your logo on our README on GitHub with a link to your site. [Become a sponsor]

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Another way to support open-source

I’m driven by a passion to foster a thriving open-source community – a space where people can tackle complex problems, no matter how small. Revitalizing libraries that have fallen into disrepair, and building new libraries focused on solving real-world challenges, are my passions. I was recently affected by layoffs, and the tech jobs market is unwelcoming. I’m reaching out here because your support would significantly aid my efforts to provide for my family, and my farm (11 🐔 chickens, 2 🐶 dogs, 3 🐰 rabbits, 8 🐈‍ cats).

If you work at a company that uses my work, please encourage them to support me as a corporate sponsor. My work on gems you use might show up in bundle fund.

I’m developing a new library, floss_funding, designed to empower open-source developers like myself to get paid for the work we do, in a sustainable way. Please give it a look.

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🔐 Security

See SECURITY.md.

🤝 Contributing

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 Keep A Changelog so if you make changes, remember to update it.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for more detailed instructions.

🚀 Release Instructions

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Code Coverage

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Coverage Graph

Coveralls Test Coverage

QLTY Test Coverage

🪇 Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting with this project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists agrees to follow the Contributor Covenant 2.1.

🌈 Contributors

Contributors

Made with contributors-img.

Also see GitLab Contributors: https://gitlab.com/appraisal-rb/gem_mine/-/graphs/main

⭐️ Star History Star History Chart

📌 Versioning

This library follows Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 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.

📄 License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License: MIT.

© Copyright

See LICENSE.md for the official copyright notice.

Copyright holders
  • Copyright (c) 2025-2026 Peter H. Boling

🤑 A request for help

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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To say "thanks!" ☝️ Join the Discord or 👇️ send money.

Sponsor appraisal-rb/gem_mine on Open Source Collective 💌 Sponsor me on GitHub Sponsors 💌 Sponsor me on Liberapay 💌 Donate on PayPal

Please give the project a star ⭐ ♥.

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

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