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Asked: 2026-05-20T20:00:10+00:00

I’ve written a few gems that I’ve released to rubygems using Gemcutter and the

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I’ve written a few gems that I’ve released to rubygems using Gemcutter and the source stored on github.

I have issue that I need to create a gem that can’t be open source and also not available to the community, but only to members of my team.

I am aware that I can store gems locally and target them in my Gemfile, however I’d like to be able to do

rake version:bump
rake release

or similar. That would bump the version and push it to my gem server and still keep older gems so that people can install older versions of it.

Seems like it should be fairly simple to do. I’m just missing how to do it

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is fairly simple if you have a server you can host your private gems on. Setup a subdomain, something like gems.companyname.com and setup a virtual host to host your domain. You’d point that virtual host to a folder like you would any website and setup the gem server from there.

    Example:

    mkdir /var/www/gemserver
mkdir /var/www/gemserver/gems
cp private-gem-0.1.0.gem /var/www/gemserver/gems
cd /var/www/gemserver
gem generate_index

    /var/www/gemserver would be the root directory. Lastly all you’d need to do is add a new source to your Gemfile

    source 'http://rubygems.org'
source 'http://gems.companyname.com'

    So anyone that knows about your custom domain can get access to the gems. The only pain is every time you rebuild your gem you need to run the generate_index command again after you upload your gem to the gems folder.

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