# GemSpecification format detail where? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 29, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gemspecification-format-detail-where/66839 "2006-08-29T18:33:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gemspecification-format-detail-where/66839/1 "2006-08-29T18:33:51Z")
i’m looking for GemSpecification format detail the page [http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?DeveloperGuide](http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?DeveloperGuide) giving a “dead” (?) link… ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gemspecification-format-detail-where/66839/2 "2006-08-29T20:08:07Z")
Une bévue wrote: > i’m looking for GemSpecification format detail the page > [http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?DeveloperGuide](http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?DeveloperGuide) giving a > “dead” (?) link… The primary place for RubyGems documentation is here: [http://docs.rubygems.org/](http://docs.rubygems.org/) You’re looking for book 4, the GemSpec reference. (I just changed the wiki page to point to this book.) Robin ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 7:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gemspecification-format-detail-where/66839/3 "2006-08-30T07:32:07Z")
Robin S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > You’re looking for book 4, the GemSpec reference. > (I just changed the wiki page to point to this book.) fine thanxs ! ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 2:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gemspecification-format-detail-where/66839/4 "2006-08-31T14:30:30Z")
Robin S. wrote: > Une b�vue wrote: > > > i’m looking for GemSpecification format detail the page > > [http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?DeveloperGuide](http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?DeveloperGuide) giving a > > “dead” (?) link… > > The primary place for RubyGems documentation is here: > [http://docs.rubygems.org/](http://docs.rubygems.org/) In fact, the wiki mentioned above is extremely out of date and has been abandoned due to spam. All current RubyGems documentation is on the [docs.rubygems.org](http://docs.rubygems.org) website now. I’ve had Tom disable the wiki so that folks will not be misled into thinking it was current. – Jim W. ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gemspecification-format-detail-where/66839/5 "2006-08-31T15:07:51Z")
Jim W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > In fact, the wiki mentioned above is extremely out of date and has been > abandoned due to spam. All current RubyGems documentation is on the > [docs.rubygems.org](http://docs.rubygems.org) website now. > > I’ve had Tom disable the wiki so that folks will not be misled into > thinking it was current. ok thanks, i did arrange myself using an example from a Jabbaer extion to ruby. what surprised me, is in that it’s really easy to write a gemspec even for a C ext to ruby…