RubyGems
RubyGems.org is the Ruby community's primary gem hosting service, providing the infrastructure for publishing, discovering, and installing Ruby gems. The RubyGems API enables programmatic access to gem metadata, version information, download statistics, search, owner management, webhooks, and the compact index used by Bundler for dependency resolution. RubyGems.org hosts over 160,000 gems with billions of total downloads.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles RubyGems the way a machine reads it — 30 machine-readable artifacts across 9 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — RubyGems scores 48.7/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 54/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
How we profile RubyGems
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for RubyGems. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 9
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
RubyGems Gems API
The RubyGems Gems API (v1) provides endpoints for retrieving gem metadata, listing owned gems, submitting new gems, yanking gem versions, managing gem ownership, retrieving user...
RubyGems Downloads API
The RubyGems Downloads API provides download count statistics for gems and individual gem versions hosted on RubyGems.org.
RubyGems Search API
The RubyGems Search API allows developers to search for gems by matching a query string against gem names and descriptions. Returns paginated results of active gems.
RubyGems Activity API
The RubyGems Activity API provides activity feeds of the most recently added and most recently updated gems on RubyGems.org, useful for monitoring new releases and tracking ecos...
RubyGems Webhooks API
The RubyGems Webhooks API enables webhook subscriptions that fire when gems are pushed to RubyGems.org. Webhooks can be scoped to a specific gem or applied globally using a wild...
RubyGems Dependencies API
Endpoints for querying gem dependency information.
RubyGems Owners API
Endpoints for managing gem ownership, including listing owners, adding and removing owners, and listing gems by owner.
RubyGems Profiles API
Endpoints for retrieving user profile information from RubyGems.org.
RubyGems Versions API
Endpoints for querying detailed version information for specific gem versions, including metadata, dependencies, checksums, and platform-specific builds.
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Open Collections 6
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
RubyGems Activity API
OPEN COLLECTIONRubyGems API V2
OPEN COLLECTIONRubyGems Downloads API
OPEN COLLECTIONRubyGems Gems API
OPEN COLLECTIONRubyGems Search API
OPEN COLLECTIONRubyGems Webhooks API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Rubygems Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Rubygems Finops
FINOPSEvent Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
RubyGems Webhook Events
The RubyGems webhook event system delivers HTTP POST notifications when gems are pushed to RubyGems.org. Webhook subscribers receive a JSON payload containing the full gem metad...
ASYNCAPISemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Rubygems Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 3
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
JSON Schema 1
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
RubyGems Gem
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 1
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Rubygems Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 2
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Rubygems Search Gems Example
EXAMPLESecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for RubyGems — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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