RubyGem download number seems artificially high. Are there bots that download from RubyGems.org?

Asked 2012-07-27T21:43:55.430

I just uploaded a RubyGem two days ago. It doesn't do much, but it is a wrapper for part of the Facebook Graph API. Today, out of curiosity, I checked the gem's download number, and it was at 300 or so, which was very surprisingly high. I'm wondering if bots download from RubyGems.org, or is there actually a possibility that my gem has been downloaded 300+ times by developers?

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Everybody know that bundle install is a bit slow. So someone can consider to keep rubygems mirror locally.

There is the gem for this task: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems-mirror

So that's why download number is high.

answered 2012-09-28T06:22:33.457

RubyGem download number seems artificially high. Are there bots that download from RubyGems.org?

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