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I am new to Ruby and just diving in. The Ruby tutorial says I should get the packaging system from here: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126
I am on Ubuntu Linux. The page has a .tar and a .gem option for downloading. Which should I download?
Also, are gems exactly analogous to Java jars? And why do I need the gem packaging system if I can just download gems one by one as they are needed?
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gem/ruby/1.9. 1 . The commands provided by the gems you installed will end up in ~/. gem/ruby/1.9.
Not by default. Nothing in the default install uses it, so it's not installed.
With the --local ( -l ) option, you would perform a local search through your installed gems. To install a gem, use gem install [gem] . Browsing installed gems is done with gem list . For more information about the gem command, see below or head to RubyGems' docs.
Ubuntu now have rubygems as a package
For Ubuntu 12:
sudo apt-get install rubygems For Ubuntu 14.04:
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