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Rubygems is the extension manager for ruby. Much like cpan is the extension manager for Perl. Gems is more than a packaging manager: it's a library versioning manager too! That is also it's achille's heel.
Install
Requires ruby to be installed prior.
Install rubygems
> wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/35283/rubygems-1.1.1.tgz > tar -xvf rubygems-1.1.1.tgz > cd rubygems-1.1.1 > ruby setup.rb
Install extra-packages for gems to work correctly
> sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev
To configure gems on your system you need to set the environment variable RUBYOPT. This will preload "require gems" to every ruby script you run.
>vim ~/.bashrc .bashrc> export RUBYOPT=rubygems
Popular gems
xmpp4r
xmpp is the open protocol behind the jabber service.
> sudo apt-get install libopenssl-ruby > sudo gem install xmpp4r -y
Testing
> irb irb> require 'xmpp4r/client'
xmpp4r-simple
> sudo gem install xmpp4r-simple -y
> sudo gem install twitter -y
