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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Ruby Gems – Ruby Compendium</title> <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Crimson+Text:400,400italic,600,600italic,700,700italic' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <meta name="author" content="Fabio Cevasco" /> <meta name="copyright" content="Fabio Cevasco" /> <meta name="robots" content="all, follow" /> <meta name="Revisit-After" content="2 Days" /> <meta name="language" content="en" /> <meta name="target_country" content="en-us" /> <meta name="country" content="United States" /> <meta name="readability-verification" content="XmaVzRjmcFL5Bb2Fu9TZVdDKzhA3apQdxexTB2rK"/> <meta name="description" content="H3RALD - Fabio Cevasco's Web Site" /> <meta name="keywords" content="h3rald, fabio cevasco, ruby-compendium" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.png" type="image/png" /> <meta content="44.388041;9.073248" name="ICBM" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/styles/html5reset.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/styles/style.css" /> <script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi?key=ABQIAAAAr6RY1Z6dchG_sX9WDLSy3xRlq2n1sm52B5HDRR5tm6o8XM18FhR56xHNNH6CsX86uN5VoTrglpyOyQ" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/js/sevenup.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/js/sevenup_black.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/js/jquery-timeago.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/js/jquery-easing.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/js/jquery-fancybox.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/js/date.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/js/feeds.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/js/hyphenator.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/js/init.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/js/search.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </head> <body> <section id="container"> <header class="page"> <nav class="home-link"> <a href="/"> <img src="/images/h3rald_small.png" alt="H3RALD" class="default"/> <![if !IE]> <img src="/images/h3rald_hover_small.png" alt="H3RALD" class="hover"/> <![endif]> </a> </nav> <nav class="section"> /<a href="/ruby-compendium/" rel="ruby-compendium">RUBY-COMPENDIUM</a> </nav> </header> <article class="page glyph-book"> <header> <hgroup> <h1>Ruby Gems</h1> <h2>Ruby Compendium</h2> </hgroup> </header> <section id="body-text" class="hyphenate glyph-book"> <nav class="navigation"><a href="/ruby-compendium/book/features.html">Advanced Language Features</a> | <a href="/ruby-compendium/book/index.html">Contents</a> | <a href="/ruby-compendium/book/gem-tips.html">What you can use for...</a></nav> <p>Sure, the <a href="/ruby-compendium/book/core-stdlib.html#core-stdlib">Standard Library</a> is quite large but… no, it does not have everything you need. Luckily, it’s full of gems out there! Rubygems is Ruby’s packaging system, and the best way to distribute your own libraries and applications.</p> <p>The Rubygems packaging system is now included in most Ruby implementation and distributions. Installing a gem and all its dependencies is as easy as issuing <code>gem install <name of the gem></code>. So for example if you want to install the <a href="https://rubygems.org/gems/rails">rails</a> gem, you can just run</p> <p><code>gem install rails</code></p> <p>…and it will be automatically downloaded and installed on your system, along with the other gems it depends on.</p> <section class="section"> <header><h1 id="h_16">RubyGems.org</h1></header> There are over 1300 different gems publicly (and freely!) available. Luckily, the official gem host site, <a href="http://www.rubygems.org">RubyGems.org</a> makes it very easy to find what you're looking for: just search for a particular gem or a functionality you're looking for, and browse through the results. You can also register and <em>push</em> your own gems for other people to use. </section> <aside class="box"> <div class="box-title">What happened to RubyForge?</div> <p>If you started to learn Ruby a few years ago, the <a href="http://www.rubyforge.org">RubyForge</a> was <em>the</em> place to find user-created ruby code and gems. 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