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Gems and Libraries
Rubygems (often called simply gems) is a packaging system for Ruby code. Ruby on Rails itself is distributed as a gem. A wide variety other gems are also available and can be used as part of Rails applications, or in any other Ruby application.Articles
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acts_as_ferret not working at all
Work-around for using STI with acts_as_ferret and ferret Gem
- What's New in Edge Rails: Gem Dependencies
- Zero to a Fully Git Enabled Rails App in the time it takes to drink an espresso
- Using git submodules to track plugins
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Sake Bomb!
Using rake system wide with the sake gem. Also includes a variety of useful rake tasks.
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Vendor Everything
Explains how to use gem unpack to put all your gems into the vendor directory, so other developers and your test and production servers are sure to have the same gems.
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Practical Ruby Gems
An introduction to Ruby Gems and an overview of many general purpose and niche gems.
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Documentation (6)
- Libxml-Ruby API
- Installing RMagick on OS X using MacPorts
Instructions for installing RMagick on Mac OS X, including how to use MacPorts to get ImageMagick running. Part of the larger documentation set for RMagick. - RubyGems Manuals
Reference manual for RubyGems - Log4r - Manual
Log4r is a comprehensive and flexible logging library written in Ruby for use in Ruby programs. It features a hierarchical logging system of any number of levels, custom level names, logger inheritance, multiple output destinations, execution tracing, custom formatting, thread safteyness, XML and YAML configuration, and more. - OSX Leopard mysql gem for ruby
How to compile the mysql gem when using the Mac Ports install of MySQL and the native Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) Ruby and Rails (and gems) installs. - RSpec Homepage
RSpec is a Behaviour Driven Development framework for Ruby. It provides two frameworks for writing and executing examples of how your Ruby application should behave: a Story Framework for describing behaviour at the application level; and a Spec Framework for describing behaviour at the object level.
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Software (6)
- annotate_models plugin
Provides a rake tasks that adds comments to all your models listing the database columns. - Ruby Facets
Facets is a huge collection of Ruby libraries. Before you write something that addresses a common problem, look here to see if it has already been done for you. - Mocha
Official Mocha Readme - Flex Mock
FlexMock is a simple, but flexible, mock object library for Ruby unit testing that integrates easily with Test::Unit. - Preview Releases: Net::SSH and friends
Announcin preview releases of Net::SSH, Net::SFTP, and Net::SCP - Plugems Runtime
A gem that supports using enhanced gems to replace Rails plugins.
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- RubyGems.org
An excellent site for finding and rating Ruby gems.
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