Force a Gem Rebuild
In my crusade to improve our Gem support, I’ve added the ability for you to initiate a Gem build right from the interface. If your Gem build fails, it’s often…
In my crusade to improve our Gem support, I’ve added the ability for you to initiate a Gem build right from the interface. If your Gem build fails, it’s often because of temporary problems with our build system (awesome improvements to that are forthcoming), and another try or two are all it takes to get the build to complete. Here’s how you fire off a new build job for the latest code on your master branch:

Please note that if a gem of that version already exists, this will be a no-op.
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