# Managing gems

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/managing-gems/150376>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 7, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/managing-gems/150376 "2008-10-07T22:16:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![tjones](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@tjones](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tjones)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/managing-gems/150376/1 "2008-10-07T22:16:30Z")

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Hello,  
I fairly new to ruby and I am building a script I will need to run on  
a lot of my systems. If I require a gem like rubyzip and it’s not  
installed what is the best way to install it when running my script?

Thanks,  
tom

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**Author:** ![tjones](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@tjones](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tjones)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/managing-gems/150376/2 "2008-10-07T22:21:48Z")

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Awesome Question. I was thinking the same thing…

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**Author:** ![tjones](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@tjones](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tjones)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 5:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/managing-gems/150376/3 "2008-10-08T05:54:41Z")

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On Oct 7, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Tedd Fox wrote:

> > Thanks,  
> > tom

[http://geminstaller.rubyforge.org/](http://geminstaller.rubyforge.org/)

Cheers-  
-Ezra