In my early Ruby programming days, I would create some utility classes or useful code, and then just copy it into a lib directory between projects. Quite often it would only be useful for a single project or throwaway task. As I became a more experienced programmer, I started trying to create useful side effects from my projects, thinking about creating modules that might be useful in the future.

Gemify My Code

Obviously I heard of gems and used them extensively, but I never really thought to create one myself, thinking it would be too much hassle. Well, it turns out that creating a Ruby gem is really simple, so I decided to gather up some of the code I had lying around in various lib directories and turn it into reusable gems.

There is nothing super exciting here, even the names of the gems are a little boring. However, all this code has served me well for various things, and I figured it was better out in the open than locked away on my hard drive.