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Rubygems program

Usage

gem command [arguments ...] [options ...]

Overview

RubyGems is a sophisticated package manager for the Ruby programming language. On OS X the default bindir for gems that install binaries is /Library/Ruby/bin.

For more information about it, you can use its --help flag. There is also online documentation available at "http://docs.rubygems.org".

Releases

115 releases since Mac OS X 10.5; the text changed 4 times.

  1. 10.5–10.5.1
  2. 10.5.2–10.5.8
  3. 10.6–10.8.5
  4. 10.9–10.10.5
  5. 10.11–26.5

Authors

RubyGems was originally developed at RubyConf 2003 by Rich Kilmer, Chad Fowler, David Black, Paul Brannan and Jim Weirch, and has received a lot of contributions since then. You can obtain the RubyGems sources at http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems/.

From ruby 175 in macOS 26.5. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.