A Cookbook.

We finally managed to push Cells to gemcutter, the key repository for Ruby gems.

Installing Cells is now as simple as

gem install cells

To load the gem in your Rails application you might extend your configuration in config/environment.rb:

Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
  config.gem "cells"

That’s all! Isn’t that great?

What did we do?

The question here is: What did Jonas Grimfelt do?

That’s this swedish guy who suddenly appeared in the project and brutally accelerated the gemify process with his incredible knowledge about gems, Rails plugins and conventions therefore.

Well, it was mostly him who

• refactored the plugin to be a grown-up standalone gem that doesn’t need a daddy rails project
• moved and tuned numerous files so they can be found by the autoloading
• continuously urged me to fix all the tests
• continuously urged me to fix things

The result is an enterprise cells gem. And the best: It’s even working!

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