I've been having the itch to convert my TrustCommerce Subscription plugin into a gem for a few reasons:

1. Sharing the love - why should Rails have all the fun?
2. The adventure and intrigue - I had never written a gem before.
3. Inspiration - I had recently stumbled across Marcel Molina Jr.'s amazing CodeInfo-ing Rakefile as featured in his AWS::S3 gem.

So over the past two days I've refactored my plugin code a bit and the TrustCommerce Subscription gem is now polished up and ready to go.

If you are switching over from the plugin there are a few changes:

• TrustCommerceGateway is now TrustCommerce

• The hashes returned from the TrustCommerce::Subscription methods must now be indexed via symbols

  response['billingid']   # plugin
  response[:billingid]    # gem
  

• destroy() method renamed delete()

  TrustCommerce::Subscription.destroy(...)    # plugin
  TrustCommerce::Subscription.delete(...)     # gem
  

Even if this gem doesn't scratch your itch, you should definitely check out Marcel's bad-ass Rakefile.

Why is this the bee's knees you ask?

How about the fact that the TrustCommerce Subscription gem site is automatically generated directly from the RDoc with one command:

rake site:deploy

Or that the gem was packaged, tagged, and pushed out to rubyforge with:

rake dist:release

Well done Marcel!