What is gem?

Ruby is a language and Rails is a framework.

but what is gem?I am new for RoR. I need your help.

Thanks

Mark

a gem is a way to distribute a ruby app/lib…

gem is a packageformat, that developers can choose to adopt.

gem, the executable, is a package manager, able to install/remove gem
packages, taking care of versions etc…

On Monday, February 20, 2006, at 6:35 AM, mark sheran wrote:


Rails mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails

Mikkel B.

www.strongside.dk - Football Portal(DK)
nflfeed.helenius.org - Football News(DK)
ting.minline.dk - Buy Old Stuff!(DK)

On 2/19/06, mark sheran [email protected] wrote:

Ruby is a language and Rails is a framework.

but what is gem?I am new for RoR. I need your help.

It’s a package tool.

http://docs.rubygems.org/