8. Distributing Gems
8.1 Conventional Distribution
Make your gem available on a web site for FTP site for downloading. Users can get the gem with conventional internet tools (e.g. browsers and FTP clients) and do a local install.
8.2 Remote Serving
By running gem server on your box, you can serve your entire set of installed gems to anyone.
Further instructions TBD.
8.3 Distributing on RubyForge
You can make a gem available for manual download.
RubyForge (http://rubyforge.org) will automatically deploy any .gem file you upload to a project download area. I encourage you to get a RubyForge account and start a RubyForge project for your code. Even if you only use the file download area, it provides a mirror for your software for when your main site goes down.