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Last Updated: March 19, 2009 9:07 AM

NOTE: This list of Ruby Gems installed on Deluxe and Premium shared hosting accounts running Hosting Configuration 2.0 is updated regularly, but may not reflect the most recent changes. To query the most current list of Gems, see What Ruby Gems are installed on my hosting account?.

Ruby Gems are located in two paths: a standard path in which mature version are installed, and a development path in which new versions are installed. To access Gems residing in the development path, add the line of code below to your application's config/environment.rb file. This code must appear before the call to Rails::Initializer.

ENV['GEM_HOME'] = '/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems-dev/1.8'

This location is where future Rails versions will also reside. To guard against existing applications' compatibility with future Gem versions, you can either freeze Gems or use Ruby's require_gem command to specify Gem versions.

For more information about freezing Gems, see What does it mean to freeze Ruby Gems?.

For more information about require_gem, see Specifying Gem versions.

Installed Ruby Gems (standard path)

actionmailer 1.2.5 [www] - depends on actionpack.
Service layer for easy email delivery and testing.

actionpack 1.12.5 [www] - depends on activesupport.
Web-flow and rendering framework putting the VC in MVC.

actionwebservice 1.1.6 [www] - depends on actionpack, activerecord.
Web service support for Action Pack.

activerecord 1.14.4 [www] - depends on activesupport.
Implements the ActiveRecord pattern for ORM.

activesupport 1.3.1 [www]
Support and utility classes used by the Rails framework.

ajax_scaffold_generator 3.1.10 [www]
Ajax scaffold generator is a rails generator for ajaxified scaffolds

archive-tar-minitar 0.5.1 [www]
Provides POSIX tarchive management from Ruby programs.
Executable is minitar.

Bloglines4R 0.1.0 [www]
A library to access the Bloglines API from Ruby

BlueCloth 1.0.0 [www]
BlueCloth is a Ruby implementation of Markdown, a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

builder 2.0.0 [www]
Builders for MarkUp.

cmdparse 2.0.2 [www]
Advanced command line parser supporting commands

color-tools 1.3.0 [www]
color-tools provides colour space definition and manpiulation as well as commonly named RGB colours.

diff-lcs 1.1.2 [www]
Provides a list of changes that represent the difference between two sequenced collections.
Executables are htmldiff, ldiff.

EliteJournal 1.9.492 [www] - depends on RedCloth, sqlite-ruby.
Easy to install, multi-user blog software
Executable is elitejournal.

eventfulapi 2.2.1 [www]
Interface to the Eventful API.

fastercsv 0.2.1 [www]
FasterCSV is CSV, but faster, smaller, and cleaner.

fcgi 0.8.7 [www]
FastCGI ruby binding.

feedreader 0.2.3
Example rails project for use with the FeedTools library.

feedtools 0.2.24
Parsing, generation, and caching system for xml news feeds.

feedtools 0.2.26
Parsing, generation, and caching system for xml news feeds.

feedupdater 0.2.3
Automatic feed updater daemon. Executable is feed_updater.

ferret 0.10.5
Ruby indexing library.

gnuplot 2.2 [www]
Utility library to aid in interacting with gnuplot

htmltools 1.10 [www]
This is a Ruby library for building trees representing HTML structure.

instiki 0.10.2 [www] - depends on madeleine, rails, RedCloth, rubyzip.
Easy to install WikiClone running on WEBrick and Madeleine
Executable is instiki.

libxml-ruby 0.9.8
Ruby libxml bindings.

libxslt-ruby 0.3.6
LibXSLT bindings for Ruby

login_generator 1.2.2 [www] - depends on rails.
[Rails] Login generator.

madeleine 0.7.1 [www]
Madeleine is a Ruby implementation of Object Prevalence

madeleine 0.7.3 [www]
Madeleine is a Ruby implementation of Object Prevalence

mime-types 1.15 [www]
Manages a MIME Content-Type that will return the Content-Type for a given filename.

mysql 2.6, 2.7 [www]
MySQL/Ruby provides the same functions for Ruby programs that the MySQL C API provides for C programs.

needle 1.3.0
Needle is a Dependency Injection/Inversion of Control container for Ruby. It supports both type-2 (setter) and type-3 (constructor) injection. It takes advantage of the dynamic nature of Ruby to provide a rich and flexible approach to injecting dependencies.

PageTemplate 2.2.3 [www]
A simple templating system for Web sites.

ParseTree 1.3.7 [www] - depends on RubyInline.
Extract and enumerate ruby parse trees.
Executables are parse_tree_abc, parse_tree_deps, parse_tree_show.

ParseTree 1.4.1 [www] - depends on RubyInline.
Extract and enumerate ruby parse trees.
Executables are parse_tree_abc, parse_tree_deps, parse_tree_show.

payment 1.0.1 [www]
Payment is used to process credit cards and electronic cash through merchant accounts.

pdf-writer 1.1.3 [www] - depends on color-tools, transaction-simple.
A pure Ruby PDF document creation library.
Executable is techbook.

podcast 0.0.4 [www]
Create podcasts from MP3 files
Executable is podcast.

radius 0.5.1
Powerful tag-based template system.

rails 1.1.6 [www] - depends on actionmailer, actionpack, actionwebservice, activerecord, activesupport, rake.
Web-application framework with template engine, control-flow layer, and ORM.
Executable is rails.

rake 0.8.3, 0.8.4 [www]
Ruby based make-like utility.
Executable is rake.

RedCloth 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 4.1.9 [www]
RedCloth is a module for using Textile and Markdown in Ruby. Textile and Markdown are text formats. A very simple text format. Another stab at making readable text that can be converted to HTML.
Executable is redcloth.

rflickr 2006.02.01 [www] - depends on mime-types.
Ruby interface to the Flickr API

rmagick 1.13.0 [www]
RMagick is an interface between the Ruby programming language and the ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick image processing libraries.

rubygems 1.3.1
RubyGems itself. Executable is gem.

rubygems-update 0.8.11
RubyGems Update GEM. Executable is update_rubygems.

rubygems-update 1.3.1
RubyGems Update GEM. Executable is update_rubygems.

RubyInline 3.6.0 [www]
Multi-language extension coding within ruby.
Executable is inline_package.

rubyslippers 1.03 [www]
RubySlippers is a GUI wrapper for RubyGems using RubyWebDialogs.
Executable is rubyslippers.

rubyzip 0.5.12 [www]
rubyzip is a ruby module for reading and writing zip files

rubyzip 0.5.8, 0.5.12 [www]
rubyzip is a ruby module for reading and writing zip files

ruwiki 0.9.3 [www] - depends on archive-tar-minitar, diff-lcs.
A simple, extensible, and fast Wiki-clone.
Executables are ruwiki, ruwiki.cgi, ruwiki_convert, ruwiki_service.rb, ruwiki_servlet.

shipping 1.3.0 [www] - depends on builder.
A general shipping module to find out the shipping prices via UPS or FedEx.

shorturl 0.8.3 [www]
Shortens URLs using services such as TinyURL and RubyURL
Executable is shorturl.

sqlite-ruby 2.2.3 [www]
SQLite/Ruby is a module to allow Ruby scripts to interface with a SQLite database.

sqlite3-ruby 1.2.4 [www]
SQLite3/Ruby is a module to allow Ruby scripts to interface with a SQLite3 database.

syntax 1.0.0 [www]
Syntax is Ruby library for performing simple syntax highlighting.

Technorati-Ruby 0.1.0 [www]
Technorati(http://technorati.com/) bindings for Ruby.

tidy 1.1.2 [www]
Ruby interface to HTML Tidy Library Project

transaction-simple 1.3.0 [www]
Simple object transaction support for Ruby.

uuidtools 1.0.0
Generation of UUIDs.

webgen 0.3.8 [www] - depends on cmdparse.
Webgen is a templated based static website generator.
Executable is webgen.

wee 0.10.0 [www]
Wee is a framework for building highly dynamic web applications.
Executable is wee.

xml-simple 1.0.8 [www]
A very simple API for XML processing.

Installed Ruby Gems (development path)

actionmailer 1.2.5, 1.3.6, 2.0.5, 2.1.2, 2.2.2 [www] - depends on actionpack.
Service layer for easy email delivery and testing.

actionpack 1.12.5, 1.13.6, 2.0.5, 2.1.2, 2.2.2 [www] - depends on activesupport.
Web-flow and rendering framework putting the VC in MVC.

actionwebservice 1.1.6, 1.2.6 [www] - depends on actionpack, activerecord.
Web service support for Action Pack.

activerecord 1.14.4, 1.15.6, 2.0.5, 2.1.2, 2.2.2 [www] - depends on activesupport.
Implements the ActiveRecord pattern for ORM.

activeresource 2.0.5, 2.1.2, 2.2.2
Think Active Record for web resources.

activesupport 1.3.1, 1.4.4, 2.0.5, 2.1.2, 2.2.2 [www]
Support and utility classes used by the Rails framework.

ajax_scaffold_generator 3.1.10 [www]
Ajax scaffold generator is a rails generator for ajaxified scaffolds

archive-tar-minitar 0.5.1 [www]
Provides POSIX tarchive management from Ruby programs.
Executable is minitar.

Bloglines4R 0.1.0 [www]
A library to access the Bloglines API from Ruby

BlueCloth 1.0.0 [www]
BlueCloth is a Ruby implementation of Markdown, a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

builder 2.0.0 [www]
Builders for MarkUp.

cmdparse 2.0.2 [www]
Advanced command line parser supporting commands

color-tools 1.3.0 [www]
color-tools provides colour space definition and manpiulation as well as commonly named RGB colours.

diff-lcs 1.1.2 [www]
Provides a list of changes that represent the difference between two sequenced collections.
Executables are htmldiff, ldiff.

EliteJournal 1.9.492 [www] - depends on RedCloth, sqlite-ruby.
Easy to install, multi-user blog software
Executable is elitejournal.

eventfulapi 2.2.1 [www]
Interface to the Eventful API.

fastercsv 0.2.1
FasterCSV is CSV, but faster, smaller, and cleaner.

fcgi 0.8.7 [www]
FastCGI ruby binding.
 
 
 
feedreader 0.2.3
Example rails project for use with the FeedTools library.

feedtools 0.2.24
Parsing, generation, and caching system for xml news feeds.

feedtools 0.2.26
Parsing, generation, and caching system for xml news feeds.

feedupdater 0.2.3
Automatic feed updater daemon. Executable is feed_updater.

ferret 0.10.5
Ruby indexing library.

gnuplot 2.2 [www]
Utility library to aid in interacting with gnuplot

htmltools 1.10 [www]
This is a Ruby library for building trees representing HTML structure.

instiki 0.10.2 [www] - depends on madeleine, rails, RedCloth, rubyzip.
Easy to install WikiClone running on WEBrick and Madeleine
Executable is instiki.

libxml-ruby 0.9.8
Ruby libxml bindings.

libxslt-ruby 0.3.6
LibXSLT bindings for Ruby

login_generator 1.2.2 [www] - depends on rails.
[Rails] Login generator.

madeleine 0.7.1 [www]
Madeleine is a Ruby implementation of Object Prevalence

madeleine 0.7.3 [www]
Madeleine is a Ruby implementation of Object Prevalence

mime-types 1.15 [www]
Manages a MIME Content-Type that will return the Content-Type for a given filename.

mysql 2.6, 2.7 [www]
MySQL/Ruby provides the same functions for Ruby programs that the MySQL C API provides for C programs.

needle 1.3.0
Needle is a Dependency Injection/Inversion of Control container for Ruby. It supports both type-2 (setter) and type-3 (constructor) injection. It takes advantage of the dynamic nature of Ruby to provide a rich and flexible approach to injecting dependencies.

PageTemplate 2.2.3 [www]
A simple templating system for Web sites.

ParseTree 1.3.7 [www] - depends on RubyInline.
Extract and enumerate ruby parse trees.
Executables are parse_tree_abc, parse_tree_deps, parse_tree_show.

ParseTree 1.4.1 [www] - depends on RubyInline.
Extract and enumerate ruby parse trees.
Executables are parse_tree_abc, parse_tree_deps, parse_tree_show.

payment 1.0.1 [www]
Payment is used to process credit cards and electronic cash through merchant accounts.

pdf-writer 1.1.3 [www] - depends on color-tools, transaction-simple.
A pure Ruby PDF document creation library.
Executable is techbook.

podcast 0.0.4 [www]
Create podcasts from MP3 files
Executable is podcast.

radius 0.5.1
Powerful tag-based template system.

rails 1.1.6, 1.2.6, 2.0.5, 2.1.2, 2.2.2 [www] - depends on actionmailer, actionpack, actionwebservice, activerecord, activesupport, rake.
Web-application framework with template engine, control-flow layer, and ORM.
Executable is rails.

rake 0.8.3, 0.8.4 [www]
Ruby based make-like utility.
Executable is rake.

RedCloth 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 4.1.9 [www]
RedCloth is a module for using Textile and Markdown in Ruby. Textile and Markdown are text formats. A very simple text format. Another stab at making readable text that can be converted to HTML.
Executable is redcloth.

rflickr 2006.02.01 [www] - depends on mime-types.
Ruby interface to the Flickr API

rmagick 1.13.0 [www]
RMagick is an interface between the Ruby programming language and the ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick image processing libraries.

rubygems 1.3.1
RubyGems itself. Executable is gem.

rubygems-update 0.8.11
RubyGems Update GEM. Executable is update_rubygems.

rubygems-update 1.3.1
RubyGems Update GEM. Executable is update_rubygems.

RubyInline 3.6.0 [www]
Multi-language extension coding within ruby.
Executable is inline_package.

rubyslippers 1.03 [www]
RubySlippers is a GUI wrapper for RubyGems using RubyWebDialogs.
Executable is rubyslippers.

rubyzip 0.5.12 [www]
rubyzip is a ruby module for reading and writing zip files

rubyzip 0.5.8, 0.5.12 [www]
rubyzip is a ruby module for reading and writing zip files

ruwiki 0.9.3 [www] - depends on archive-tar-minitar, diff-lcs.
A simple, extensible, and fast Wiki-clone.
Executables are ruwiki, ruwiki.cgi, ruwiki_convert, ruwiki_service.rb, ruwiki_servlet.

shipping 1.3.0 [www] - depends on builder.
A general shipping module to find out the shipping prices via UPS or FedEx.

shorturl 0.8.3 [www]
Shortens URLs using services such as TinyURL and RubyURL
Executable is shorturl.

sqlite-ruby 2.2.3 [www]
SQLite/Ruby is a module to allow Ruby scripts to interface with a SQLite database.

sqlite3-ruby 1.2.4 [www]
SQLite3/Ruby is a module to allow Ruby scripts to interface with a SQLite3 database.

syntax 1.0.0 [www]
Syntax is Ruby library for performing simple syntax highlighting.

Technorati-Ruby 0.1.0 [www]
Technorati(http://technorati.com/) bindings for Ruby.

tidy 1.1.2 [www]
Ruby interface to HTML Tidy Library Project

transaction-simple 1.3.0 [www]
Simple object transaction support for Ruby.

uuidtools 1.0.0
Generation of UUIDs.

webgen 0.3.8 [www] - depends on cmdparse.
Webgen is a templated based static website generator.
Executable is webgen.

wee 0.10.0 [www]
Wee is a framework for building highly dynamic web applications.
Executable is wee.

xml-simple 1.0.8 [www]
A very simple API for XML processing.