How to contribute

Community involvement is essential to RubyGems. We want to keep it as easy as possible to contribute changes. There are a few guidelines that we need contributors to follow to reduce the time it takes to get changes merged in.

Guidelines

New features should be coupled with tests.
Ensure that your code blends well with ours:
- No trailing whitespace
- Match indentation (two spaces)
- Match coding style (run bin/rake rubocop)
If any new files are added or existing files removed in a commit or PR, please update the Manifest.txt accordingly. This can be done by running bin/rake update_manifest
Don't modify the history file or version number.
If you have any questions, Feel free to join us on Slack, you can register by signing up at https://slack.bundler.io or file an issue here: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues

For more information and ideas on how to contribute to RubyGems ecosystem, see here: https://guides.rubygems.org/contributing/

Getting Started

Installing dependencies

bin/rake setup

NOTE: If the above fails with permission related errors, you're most likely using a global Ruby installation (like the one packaged by your OS), which sets GEM_HOME to a location regular users can't write to. Consider using a Ruby version manager like RVM, rbenv, chruby or asdf. These will install Ruby to a location regular users can write to, so you won't run into permission issues. Alternatively, consider setting GEM_HOME environment variable to a writable location with something like export GEM_HOME=/tmp/rubygems.gems and try again.

Manually trying your local changes

To run commands like gem install from the repo:

ruby -Ilib exe/gem install

To run commands like bundle install from the repo:

bundler/bin/bundle install

Running Tests

To run the entire test suite you can use:

bin/rake test

To run an individual test file located for example in test/rubygems/test_deprecate.rb you can use:

ruby -Ilib:test:bundler/lib test/rubygems/test_deprecate.rb

And to run an individual test method named test_default within a test file, you can use:

ruby -Ilib:test:bundler/lib test/rubygems/test_deprecate.rb -n /test_default/

Running bundler tests

To run the entire bundler test suite in parallel (it takes a while), run the following from the bundler/ subfolder:

bin/parallel_rspec

There are some realworld higher level specs run in CI, but not run by bin/parallel_rspec. You can run those with:

bin/rake spec:realworld

To run an individual test file location for example in spec/install/gems/standalone_spec.rb you can use the following from the bundler/ subfolder:

bin/rspec spec/install/gems/standalone_spec.rb

Checking code style

You can check compliance with our code style with

bin/rake rubocop

Optionally you can configure git hooks with to check this before every commit with

bin/rake git_hooks

For more information, check SETUP.md and DEBUGGING.md.

Issues

RubyGems uses labels to track all issues and pull requests. In order to provide guidance to the community this is documentation of how labels are used in the rubygems repository.

Contribution

These labels are made to guide contributors to issue/pull requests that they can help with.

good first issue - The issue described here is considered a good option for a new contributor. We encourage new contributors though to work on whichever issue they find most interesting, the ones labeled here as just estimated to have a reasonable level of complexity for someone new to the code base.
help wanted - The issue has not been claimed for work, and is awaiting willing volunteers!

Type

Issues might have a light green type: * label, which describes the type of the issue.

bug report - An issue describing a bug in rubygems. This would be something that is broken, confusing, unexpected behavior etc.
feature request - An issue describing a request for a new feature or enhancement.
question - An issue that is a more of a question than a call for specific changes in the codebase.
cleanup - An issue that proposes cleanups to the code base without fixing a bug or implementing a feature.
major bump - This issue request requires a major version bump
administrative - This issue relates to administrative tasks that need to take place as it relates to rubygems
documentation - This issue relates to improving the documentation for in this repo. Note that much of the rubygems documentation is here: https://github.com/rubygems/guides

Pull request might have a light orange rubygems: * or a light blue bundler: * label which describes the pull request according to the following criteria:

security fix - A pull request that fixes a security issue.
breaking change - A pull request including any change that requires a major version bump.
major enhancement - A pull request including a backwards compatible change worth a special mention in the changelog
deprecation - A pull request that introduces a deprecation.
feature - A pull request implementing a feature request.
deprecation - A pull request that implements a performance improvement.
documentation - A pull request introducing documentation improvements worth mentioning to end users.
minor enhancements - A pull request introducing small but user visible changes.
bug fix - A pull request that fixes a bug report.

In the case of bundler, these labels are set by maintainers on PRs and have special importance because they are used to automatically build the changelog.

Workflow / Status

The light yellow status: * labels that indicate the state of an issue, where it is in the process from being submitted to being closed. These are listed in rough progression order from submitted to closed.

triage - This is an issue or pull request that needs to be properly labeled by a maintainer.
confirmed - This issue/pull request has been accepted as valid, but is not yet immediately ready for work.
ready - An issue that is available for collaboration. This issue should have existing discussion on the problem, and a description of how to go about solving it.
working - An issue that has a specific individual assigned to and planning to do work on it.
user feedback required - The issue/pull request is blocked pending more feedback from an end user
blocked / backlog - the issue/pull request is currently unable to move forward because of some specific reason, generally this will be a reason that is outside RubyGems or needs feedback from some specific individual or group, and it may be a while before something it is resolved.

Closed Reason

Reasons are why an issue / pull request was closed without being worked on or accepted. There should also be more detailed information in the comments. The closed reason labels are maroon closed: *.

duplicate - This is a duplicate of an existing bug. The comments must reference the existing issue.
abandoned - This is an issue/pull request that has aged off, is no longer applicable or similar.
declined - An issue that won't be fixed/implemented or a pull request that is not accepted.
deprecated - An issue/pull request that no longer applies to the actively maintained codebase.
discussion - An issue/pull that is no longer about a concrete change, and is instead being used for discussion.

Platforms

If an issue or pull request pertains to only one platform, then it should have an appropriate purple platform: * label. Current platform labels: windows, java, osx, linux

Git

Please sign your commits. Although not required in order for you to contribute, it ensures that any code submitted by you wasn't altered while you were transferring it, and proves that it was you who submitted it and not someone else.

Please see https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Signing-Your-Work or https://help.github.com/en/articles/signing-commits for details on how to to generate a signature and automatically sign your commits.

Provide feedback

Saved searches

Use saved searches to filter your results more quickly

Uh oh!

Uh oh!