# RubyGems (روبي جيمز)

> RubyGems is accessible in Syria, as of 2026-07-17.

- Status: accessible
- Outreach: No Outreach
- Company: [Ruby Central](https://unblocksyria.com/en/companies/ruby-central.md)
- Categories: Package Registries
- Official site: https://rubygems.org
- Community votes: 2
- Last updated: 2026-07-17
- Page: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/rubygems

## About

Official package manager and hosting service for Ruby libraries

## Activity summary

Accessible in Syria. Comprehensive community testing in March 2026 confirmed full access with no VPN across all Syrian ISPs, covering the website, account creation, API key generation, browsing gems, installing gems via the CLI, system updates, and even publishing a test gem to the registry. No outreach was needed.

## Community reports

- 2026-03-25 — Verified. Comprehensive community testing confirmed that RubyGems is fully accessible from Syria with no restrictions. Testing covered all core functionality: the main website (rubygems.org) loads successfully, gem system update via "gem update --system" works, manual installation from downloaded archive works, account creation completes without issues, API key generation works, browsing gems and static pages (blog, guides) works, installing gems via CLI works, and publishing a test gem to the registry succeeds. Testing was performed across all Syrian ISPs with no VPN required. (evidence: https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/q219mf0trvxo7dtq15ims2ur/diwty165kaxllwmy6sh0psko-screen-1.png, https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/cneowgu5ycwqam0un6uouple/qaentyqmfu9fd6ua5l9rfzz7-screen-2.png, https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/fh65mzrw9h00jf8qmldoqyfb/rl1ossyykg3349hdsk40ddhg-screen-3.png, https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/xx1elkd2k6mlp534eghss2yu/th0hmnhff9q2np3ant68ss1q-screen-4.png, https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/tmpqenixzjfj0yrz5g3q3fk5/blax3omehdfm36pz7onnkzws-screen-5.png)

## Context

These are geo-restrictions the companies applied themselves, not filtering by Syrian ISPs and not a legal requirement. US and EU sanctions on Syria were lifted in 2025. See https://unblocksyria.com/llms.txt for the regulatory summary and https://unblocksyria.com/en/about for citations to the specific orders and regulations.

## Machine-readable

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- Timeline JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/rubygems/timeline?locale=en
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- Other languages: https://unblocksyria.com/ar/services/rubygems.md, https://unblocksyria.com/ku/services/rubygems.md