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Gems now built from the default branch

We pushed out a fix the other day that updated our gem builder to look inside your repository’s default branch, which isn’t necessarily master anymore, to build your gemspecs.

PJ Hyett·@pjhyett

May 27, 2009 | Updated January 4, 2019

We pushed out a fix the other day that updated our gem builder to look inside your repository’s default branch, which isn’t necessarily master anymore, to build your gemspecs.

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