Monthly progress reports and other Ruby Together updates. See exactly what we’re doing with with the money we raise.
May 13, 2017
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April 2017 Monthly Update
During April, we paid for 39 hours of developer work, fixing bugs, applying security patches, and worked with Fastly to prevent a major outage for some users. read more…
April 18, 2017
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March 2017 Monthly Update
In March, we paid for 62.4 hours of developer work, fixing bugs, administrating servers, and quietly kept things chugging along. read more…
March 8, 2017
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January And February 2017 Monthly Update
summary: In January and February, we paid for 167.8 hours of developer work, pushed a Bundler feature release as version 1.14, got some feedback, and made plans for the future. read more…
January 21, 2017
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December 2016 Monthly Update
In December, we paid for 77.8 hours of developer work, hired an Empress of Documentation, and shipped the Bundler 1.14 prerelease. read more…
November 30, 2016
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November 2016 Monthly Update
This month 16 new members joined, André spoke at RubyConf about contributing to open source, and we paid for 129.5 hours of work on Bundler, RubyGems, and RubyGems.org. read more…
October 31, 2016
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October 2016 Monthly Update
This month we released four bugfixes for Bundler 1.13, weathered great internet storms, and dramatically improved server response times. We did it with 70.3 hors of paid work on Bundler, RubyGems, and RubyGems.org. read more…
September 30, 2016
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September 2016 Monthly Update
Ruby Together paid for 71.3 hours of work, and had 18 new members join. This month we went to Strangeloop, gave a talk at EuRuKo about the first year of Ruby Together, and released Bundler 1.13.0, 1.13.1, and 1.13.2. All part of the plan for ramping up Ruby community outreach and engagament. read more…
September 27, 2016
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A Year Of Ruby Together
Ruby Together has been around for over a year! Here's a summary of why we exist, what we've gotten done so far, and what we want to do in the future. read more…
August 30, 2016
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August 2016 Monthly Update
Ruby Together paid for 65.5 hours of work, and had 2 new members join. This month we released Bundler 1.13.rc2, and created detailed roadmaps for Bundler 1.13, 1.14, 2.0 and the merged RubyGems + Bundler 3.0 read more…
July 30, 2016
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July 2016 Monthly Update
Ruby Together paid for 64.4 hours of work, and had 5 new members join. We launched a new design for bundler.io, and made a big chunk of progress towards Bundler 1.13, 1.14, 2.0, and the combined Bundler+RubyGems 3.0. read more…
June 30, 2016
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June 2016 Monthly Update
Ruby Together paid for 119.6 hours of work, and had 7 new members join. Work this month includes RubyGems 2.6.6, Bundler 1.13 pre-release, and an array of minor improvements thanks to our Google Summer of Code students. read more…
May 30, 2016
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May 2016 Monthly Update
This month at Ruby Together was all about people: we met the Ruby community at RailsConf, started our Google Summer of Code students working, and started reorganizing Bundler and RubyGems issues. read more…
April 28, 2016
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April 2016 Monthly Update
In April we had our one year anniversary, paid for 106 hours of developer time, had six new members join, and launched Bundler 1.12 and the new gem index format. read more…
March 30, 2016
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March 2016 Monthly Update
Ruby Together gained 6 members, paid for 68 hours of developer time, and reached the penultimate step of big accomplishments for Bundler and RubyGems.org. read more…
February 29, 2016
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February 2016 Monthly Update
Setting a new record, we paid for more than 86 hours of developer work. We also released new versions of RubyGems and Bundler, and gained 6 new members. read more…
February 1, 2016
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January 2016 Monthly Update
In January, Ruby Together paid for 56 hours of developer time, released RubyGems 2.5.2, hired two more developers, and gained 9 new members. read more…
December 31, 2015
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December 2015 Monthly Update
This month, Ruby Together paid for 40 hours of developer time, shipped t-shirts from our Teespring campaign, released Bundler 1.11, hired developers to work on the RubyGems library, and gained 6 new members. read more…
November 30, 2015
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November 2015 Monthly Update
In November, we went to RubyConf, hired @cczona, gave away 250 shirts, paid for 40 hours of developer work on Bundler and RubyGems.org. We also had 8 new developers and 9 new companies join as members! read more…
October 30, 2015
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October 2015 Monthly Update
Since last month, Ruby Together paid for 40 hours of developer time on Bundler and RubyGems.org, had 7 new members join, and visited ROSSConf and EuRuKo to hear from the community. read more…
September 23, 2015
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September 2015 Monthly Update
In September we paid for 58 hours of development work on Bundler and RubyGems.org, while we were joined by 8 new members, including New Relic, Stitch Fix, Square, and Intercom. read more…
August 18, 2015
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August 2015 Monthly Update
New members Yammer, Kickstarter and Basecamp joined, while we paid for 40 hours of development work on Bundler and RubyGems.org. read more…
July 18, 2015
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July 2015 Monthly Update
A double progress report including 80 hours of developer work paid for, a new website, a new Bundler version, RubyGems progress, and juicy financial details. read more…
July 15, 2015
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Project Codes Of Conduct
Ruby Together will only fund work on projects that have established and enforce a code of conduct. read more…
July 13, 2015
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June 2015 Monthly Update
During our third month, there was a Bundler support emergency. We'll have a full Ruby Together update with financials and detailed progress for both June and July in the July update. read more…
May 18, 2015
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May 2015 Monthly Update
For our second month, Bundler made five bugfix releases, three prerealeses, and pushed the 1.10 release candidate. RubyGems.org finally started deleting gems when they are yanked. read more…
April 19, 2015
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April 2015 Monthly Update
In our first month of operation, we hired our first two developers, and accomplished a record amount of work on both Bundler and RubyGems.org. read more…
April 8, 2015
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Cloud City And Ruby Together
Cloud City development has joined Ruby Together as a corporate member. read more…
April 6, 2015
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David Radcliffe Joins The Team
We've hired David Radcliffe, a prolific contributor to the software that keeps RubyGems.org running. read more…
April 3, 2015
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Engine Yard And Ruby Together
Welcome to Engine Yard, our second founding corporate member. read more…
April 2, 2015
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Stripe And Ruby Together
Stripe has joined Ruby Together as a founding corporate member. read more…
March 21, 2015
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Sponsoring Rubybench
The RubyBench project is a great resource for Ruby developers, and Ruby Together is sponsoring the hardware in runs on. read more…
March 20, 2015
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Friends Of Ruby Together
By popular demand, it is now possible to support Ruby Together with as little as $10 per month, or any amount one time. read more…
March 19, 2015
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Announcing The Rubygems Partnership
Ruby Together & Ruby Central have agreed to work together to make RubyGems.org better than ever. read more…
March 17, 2015
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Announcing Ruby Together
Ruby Together is a non-profit trade association dedicated to the needs of the Ruby community. read more…