Rubygems.org: Multiple API keys

[radar]

As a developer for Mocra and an open source guy, sometimes I publish gems under the dev@mocra account and other times at my own personal account. In order to do this however I need to edit the ~/.gem/credentials file every time I need to switch. Whilst it would be easy for me to make a script to just mv the file elsewhere and copy over the new one, I think there would also be other people in this situation.

[qrush]

Agreed, this is why ~/.gem/credentials is a YAML file...so this could be implemented something like...

gem push whatever.gem -k mocra

and in the credentials file:

---
:rubygems_api_key: 1337
:mocra_api_key: 42

[sr]

Makes me think of something related... we want to run a gemcutter instance to host our internal gems. Currently we have a company-specific gem which is exactly like the gemcutter one except it only provides the push command and point to our server. What if gemcutter supported something like:

gem push foo.gem -h foo

with h standing for host and defaulting to gemcutter. And the YAML file:

---
gemcutter:
  api_key: foo
  url: http://gemcutter.org
foo:
  api_key: bar
  url: http://gems.example.org

I'd be happy to submit a patch if you are ok with this.

[qrush]

I like that approach better, sr...however we'll have to continue to support :rubygems_api_key since the gemcutter gem looks at that too. So perhaps the default could be

---
rubygems:
  api_key: foo
  address: http://rubygems.org

Thankfully since it's parsed as a YAML file we should be able to drop this in.

[qrush]

This is done! https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/17

[johnl]

as this is the top search result for this problem and since I spent 20 minutes trying to figure out the right config format, I thought I'd clarify it here for others. Just specify each key as a symbol in ~/.gem/credentials and specify which you want with -k

:work: b026324c6904b2a9cb4b88d6d61c81d1
:personal: b026324c6904b2a9cb4b88d6d61c81d1

gem push -k work mygem