RubyGems had 7 outages in the last 2 years totaling 401h 18m of downtime — averaging 0.3 incidents per month.
There were 7 RubyGems outages since October 15, 2025 totaling 401h 18m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.
We're experiencing an elevated level of errors and are currently looking into the issue.
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
This incident has been resolved.
We're currently investigating problems across parts of RubyGems.org. Gem installs and pushes may be slow or failing, and the site itself may not load reliably.
We've traced the problem to one of our upstream providers and are watching closely as service recovers. Installs and pushes should be working again, though you may still see the occasional error while things settle.
This incident has been resolved.
Due to an ongoing DDoS attack against rubygems.org, we have temporarily disabled registrations. We'll share an update once we've made changes to protect legitimate users and prevent further abuse.
The malicious spam activity against rubygems.org has stopped. The bot accounts responsible have been blocked and removed, and the 500+ malicious packages pushed during the attack have been yanked from the registry. Registrations will remain closed while we coordinate with Fastly to enable WAF protection and tighten rate limiting on account creation. We expect this to take two to three days. We'll post another update when we're closer being ready to re-enable user registrations. Gem installs and pushes for existing users are unaffected.
This incident has been resolved and we've re-enabled account registrations
We are currently investigating this issue.
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
This incident has been resolved.
We're currently investigating response time degradation on rubygems.org and index.rubygems.org
We have identified the cause of the performance degradation and have begun restoring normal service. We're continuing to monitor the situation.
This incident has been resolved.
We are currently experiencing a partial outage affecting RubyGems.org search functionality. Our team is investigating the issue and working towards a resolution.
We've identified and are addressing the underlying issue affecting RubyGems.org search. Service restoration is underway, and we anticipate normal operations to resume within the next hour.
The issue affecting RubyGems.org search has been resolved. We are monitoring the service to ensure stability and will provide an update if any further issues arise.
This incident has been resolved
Gem pushes utilising the attestation feature are failing and will respond with an application error. We've identified the issue and are currently working to push a fix.
We have implemented a fix for gem pushes that use attestations on rubygems.org. However, gems that rely on the release-gem GitHub Action (https://github.com/rubygems/release-gem) to deploy to rubygems.org will still experience errors. The release-gem action will automatically retry pushing to rubygems.org without attestations, which continue to function as expected. We are closely monitoring the situation and collaborating with the Sigstore team to resolve this issue.
We're continuing to work with the sigstore team to help resolve users being unable to gem pushes with attestations. For the time being, we recommend users update their workflows to retry gem pushes without attestations.
This issue has been resolved. Please ensure that you're using the latest version of the https://github.com/rubygems/release-gem in your Github Actions tasks.
This incident has been resolved.