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instance method

Gem::Specification#author

author

lib/rubygems/specification.rb View on GitHub ↗

# File tmp/rubies/ruby-3.1.3/lib/rubygems/specification.rb, line 1559
def author
  (val = authors) && val.first
end

Singular reader for authors. Returns the first author in the list

See also #author= #add_self_to_load_path #add_runtime_dependency #authors also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.0