Ruby Shield | Ruby Central

We’re thrilled to announce Ruby Shield, a partnership between Ruby Central and Shopify that underscores our shared commitment to security work. This partnership will allow Ruby Central to focus more on security and general Ruby and Rails infrastructure development and maintenance. Ruby Central operates rubygems.org, the primary Ruby software registry, and supports development of tools such as Rubygems and Bundler.

As many in our community know, Shopify has long had a team dedicated to supporting Rails. Their team has recently started dedicating more effort towards contributing and maintaining rubygems.org for the betterment of the entire Ruby ecosystem. Shopify will also support Ruby Central with a donation to the organization made over the next four years, which we plan to use to hire security-focused developers. While Shopify’s financial support will not result in any additional privileges, preferences, or access to Ruby Central decision-making, Ruby Central is excited to see new feature proposals like enhanced software signing projects, widely desired by a large portion of the community.

The Ruby community is important to us at Ruby Central and our mission is to support the community in its entirety. Shopify understands the critical role which Ruby Central plays in the Ruby community and is committed to supporting Ruby Central's empowerment of all Ruby developers. We look forward to potentially working with more companies on similar opportunities in the future as the Ruby community and ecosystem continues to grow and thrive.

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