Example of releasing a tiny gem entire on Gist

README.md

Hosting a gem in a single GitHub Gist

Let's say you want to make something available as a gem, but it's just too trivial for the rubygems.org repository. GitHub Gists can be accessed via git, so perhaps you could host a Rubygem there? You can!

This gist is an example of a gem I've called 'tinygem'. It has no functionality, but defines a module called Tinygem.

You can use it from any Gemfile like so:

gem 'tinygem', git: 'https://gist.github.com/6077471dd4783c4b476384930d3dc60a.git'

And then the Tinygem module will exist within your app.

Gemfile

source "https://rubygems.org"
gemspec

Rakefile

require "bundler/gem_tasks"

tinygem.gemspec

require_relative "tinygem"

Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
  spec.name          = "tinygem"
  spec.version       = Tinygem::VERSION
  spec.authors       = ["Peter Cooper"]
  spec.summary       = "A demonstration of hosting a gem within a gist"
  spec.require_paths = ['.']
  spec.files         = ['tinygem.rb']
  spec.licenses      = ['MIT']
  # spec.add_dependency "example-gem", "~> 1.0"
end

tinygem.rb

module Tinygem
  VERSION = "0.0.1"
end