RailsConf 2024 - Let’s Extend Rails With A Gem by Noel Rappin

Rails is powerful, but it doesn’t do everything. Sometimes you want to build your own tool that adds functionality to Rails. If it’s something that might be useful for other people, you can write a Ruby Gem and distribute it. In this workshop, we will go through the entire process of creating a gem, starting with “bundle gem” and ending with how to publish it with “gem push”. Along the way, we’ll show how to get started, how to manage configuration, how to be part of Rails configuration, whether you want to be a Rails Engine, and how to test against multiple versions of Rails. After this workshop, you will have all the tools you need to contribute your own gem to the Rails community.