rubygems
Safeguard articles tagged "rubygems" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
18 articles
RubyGems and Bundler's Cooldown Discussion: Soak Windows as a First-Class Defender Policy
After the 2025 supply-chain waves, the ruby/rubygems community opened Discussion #9113 to evaluate a built-in cooldown feature for bundle update. Here is the defender argument and how to implement it today.
RubyGems Suspends New Signups After a 500-Package Malicious Flood (May 2026)
On 12-13 May 2026, RubyGems was hit by a coordinated spam-publishing flood that pushed 500+ malicious packages from newly-registered bot accounts. The registry paused new signups and re-enabled them on 16 May after tightening rate limiting with Fastly.
Ruby Gems Security: Signing, Yanking and Trusted Publishing
Gem signing never took off, yanking is weaker than people assume, and trusted publishing finally fixes the credential problem. What to actually rely on in a Ruby pipeline.
Reachability Analysis for Ruby and RubyGems in 2026
Ruby reachability under metaprogramming, Rails autoloading, and Bundler groups. What bundler-audit and modern tools handle, and where they punt to over-approximation.
Ruby Security Explained
Ruby security in one place: the 2019 rest-client hijack, CVE-2022-32224's RCE, RubyGems' MFA mandate, and 2025's credential-stealing gem campaign.
Case study: RubyGems account takeover incidents and their...
A look at real RubyGems account takeover incidents, including the rest-client hijack, and what they reveal about Ruby supply chain risk.
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