RubyGems

(See Releases for release-specific information)

Installation

Get it from RubyForge (rubygems.rubyforge.org) and run (as root, if appropriate and necessary)

ruby setup.rb

For more details and other options, see:

• User Guide/Installation

For User Documentation, see

• RubyGems User Guide

• Frequently Asked Questions

For developer docs see

• Creating Gems

• GEM Specification

The home page of the RubyGems Documentation

• RubyGems Home

Additional directories

./bin/…

binary commands (gem, gem_server, etc)

./lib/…

the RubyGems library

./packages/…

default RubyGems packages (currently only ‘sources’)

./test/…

unit and functional tests

./examples/…

example library w/gemspec for generating and installing gems

./gemspecs/…

example gemspecs

Credits

RubyGems was originally developed at RubyConf 2003 by:

• Rich Kilmer – rich(at)infoether.com

• Chad Fowler – chad(at)chadfowler.com

• David Black – dblack(at)wobblini.net

• Paul Brannan – paul(at)atdesk.com

• Jim Weirch – jim(at)weirichhouse.org

Contributors since then

• Gavin Sinclair – gsinclair(at)soyabean.com.au

• George Marrows– george.marrows(at)ntlworld.com

• Dick Davies – rasputnik(at)hellooperator.net

• Mauricio Fernandez – batsman.geo(at)yahoo.com

• Simon Strandgaard – neoneye(at)adslhome.dk

• Dave Glasser – glasser(at)mit.edu

• Paul Duncan – pabs(at)pablotron.org

• Ville Aine – vaine(at)cs.helsinki.fi

• Ryan Davis –

• Eric Hodel – drbrain(at)segment7.net

(If your name is missing, PLEASE let us know!)

Feedback

Please provide us feedback at rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems

Thanks!

-The RubyGems Team