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libraries.
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{: .summary}
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- Nearly all of these libraries are released in the form of a ** gem** , a packaged
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- library or application that can be installed with a tool called [ ** RubyGems** ] [ 1 ] .
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+ Nearly all of these libraries are released in the form of a ** gem** ,
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+ a packaged library or application that can be installed with a tool
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+ called [ ** RubyGems** ] [ 1 ] .
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- RubyGems is a Ruby packaging system designed to facilitate the creation, sharing and
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- installation of libraries (in some ways, it is a distribution packaging
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- system similar to, say, ` apt-get ` , but targeted at Ruby software).
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+ RubyGems is a Ruby packaging system designed to facilitate the creation,
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+ sharing and installation of libraries (in some ways, it is a distribution
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+ packaging system similar to, say, ` apt-get ` , but targeted at Ruby software).
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Ruby comes with RubyGems by default since version 1.9, previous
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Ruby versions require RubyGems to be [ installed by hand] [ 2 ] .
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The main place where libraries are hosted is [ ** RubyGems.org** ] [ 1 ] , a public
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repository of gems that can be searched and installed onto your machine.
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- You may browse and search for gems using [ RubyGems.org ] [ 1 ] , or use
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- the ` gem ` command.
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+ You may browse and search for gems using the RubyGems website,
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+ or use the ` gem ` command.
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Using ` gem search -r ` , you can search RubyGems' repository. For
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instance, ` gem search -r rails ` will return a list of Rails-related
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