Reminder - Switch your environment.rb gems to Gemcutter

GitHub just announced that since their move to Rackspace, they’ve completely disabled gem building (and it isn’t coming back). They’re hosting existing gems for about a year, but it’s probably a good idea to update your Rails apps before you forget.

Gemcutter is the new hotness in gem repositories, and is the new GitHub-recommended source for gems.

Here’s what you need to do:

Before:

After:

Note that on GitHub, the gems were prefixed with the GitHub username. On Gemcutter, the ‘canonical’ versions of gems often drop the prefix. Be sure to do a quick search on Gemcutter if you’re not sure.

Don’t forget to run rake moonshine:gems afterward if you’re deploying with Moonshine.

On a side note, Gemcutter is hosted on Heroku. I checked out Heroku when it first came out, and it has made an amazing transition from a gimmicky in-browser Rails editor to a full-fledged Amazon EC2-backed power hosting provider with unbelievably simple Rack app deployment. If you are still in the dark like I was up until recently, I highly recommend checking them out.

Do this before you forget, and remind your Ruby / Rails / Sinatra / Merb / etc. pals to do the same by retweeting this post! Or like, Google Wave it or something.