So GitHub dropped gem support. No problem – Gemcutter, the drop-in replacement, is simple to use. (And now my gems get canonical names!) I’ve pushed my Rails gems (ActiveUrl, Subdomain Routes and Paged Scopes) to the new host, and updated the README installation instructions.

Installing the gems on a server now goes as follows (no mholling namespace):

gem sources -a http://gemcutter.org
sudo gem install active_url
sudo gem install subdomain_routes
sudo gem install paged_scopes

And in the environment.rb file for a Rails project:

config.gem "active_url", :source => "http://gemcutter.org"
config.gem "subdomain_routes", :source => "http://gemcutter.org"
config.gem "paged_scopes", :source => "http://gemcutter.org"

Pretty simple. (You can even drop the :source option if you’ve installed the gemcutter gem and run gem tumble.)