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gemRubyGems program

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

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".

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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/.

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