Now you can roll your own private Ruby gem server on Google Cloud Platform

This is great news for organizations that build libraries with proprietary business logic or that mirror public libraries for internal use.

For those who are unfamiliar, in Ruby, these libraries are called gems, and until recently, there wasn't a good hosted solution for serving them. For Ruby in particular, many developers found themselves building their own custom solutions or relying on third parties such as Gemfury.

In fact, recently they released google-cloud-gemserver gem, making it possible to deploy a private gem server to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with a single command:

$ google-cloud-gemserver create --use-proj [MY_PROJECT_ID]