21.1. Using RubyGems
RubyGems is not the “official” package management system for Ruby, but it is the one with the most community support. As of July 2006, it is not part of the standard distribution, but it may be in the future. We had a good overview of the mechanics of gem creation in Chapter 17. In this chapter we’re concerned with using gems created by others.
The RubyGems concept exists to solve a few basic problems: ease of installation, centralized repositories, library version management, dependency management, and more. Gems give you easy access to your documentation and easy control over what libraries are installed.
You may not have RubyGems installed on your system. If not, go to http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems and follow ...
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