How to build Ruby packages with TeamCity.

What are Ruby packages?

Ruby is not just a programming language, but an entire philosophy about programming. It makes programming fun, productive, and rewarding. Most programs consist of code that needs to be organized into functions. And so most Ruby programs consist of classes and modules containing useful functions for interacting with the real world, operating on text, working with objects, creating GUIs, doing system administration tasks, building web applications… you name it. Ruby is at its heart a toolkit for accessing existing libraries like OpenSSL and providing something like Visual Basic style syntactic sugar to make working with them fun.

What is TeamCity?

TeamCity is a build server and a suite of developer productivity tools. It is a smart, user-friendly solution for effective software projects management. TeamCity enables developers to track changes in source code, compile projects, execute all kinds of tests, control versions, gather reports and generate artifacts. In addition, the distributed builds technology helps to organize multiple development locations.

Building Ruby package with TeamCity via packagecloud

If you’re looking to build Ruby package with TeamCity, you can use packagecloud to handle all of your package management and integrations with your CI/CD tools. Packagecloud works with all kinds of packages, not only Ruby packages. As well, you can integrate with all kinds of CI/CD tools, not only TeamCity.