An Array of Regexps that match windows ruby platforms.

Subdirectories in a gem repository

Location of Marshal quick gemspecs on remote repositories

Gem::RDoc provides methods to generate RDoc and ri data for installed gems upon gem installation.

This file is automatically required by RubyGems 1.9 and newer.

RubyGems is the Ruby standard for publishing and managing third party libraries.

For user documentation, see:

• gem help and gem help [command]

• RubyGems User Guide

• Frequently Asked Questions

For gem developer documentation see:

• Creating Gems

• Gem::Specification

• Gem::Version for version dependency notes

Further RubyGems documentation can be found at:

• RubyGems Guides

• RubyGems API (also available from gem server)

RubyGems Plugins

As of RubyGems 1.3.2, RubyGems will load plugins installed in gems or $LOAD_PATH. Plugins must be named 'rubygems_plugin' (.rb, .so, etc) and placed at the root of your gem's require_path. Plugins are discovered via ::find_files then loaded. Take care when implementing a plugin as your plugin file may be loaded multiple times if multiple versions of your gem are installed.

For an example plugin, see the graph gem which adds a `gem graph` command.

RubyGems Defaults, Packaging

RubyGems defaults are stored in rubygems/defaults.rb. If you're packaging RubyGems or implementing Ruby you can change RubyGems' defaults.

For RubyGems packagers, provide lib/rubygems/operating_system.rb and override any defaults from lib/rubygems/defaults.rb.

For Ruby implementers, provide lib/rubygems/defaults/#{RUBY_ENGINE}.rb and override any defaults from lib/rubygems/defaults.rb.

If you need RubyGems to perform extra work on install or uninstall, your defaults override file can set pre and post install and uninstall hooks. See ::pre_install, ::pre_uninstall, ::post_install, ::post_uninstall.

Bugs

You can submit bugs to the RubyGems bug tracker on GitHub

Credits

RubyGems is currently maintained by Eric Hodel.

RubyGems was originally developed at RubyConf 2003 by:

• Rich Kilmer – rich(at)infoether.com

• Chad Fowler – chad(at)chadfowler.com

• David Black – dblack(at)wobblini.net

• Paul Brannan – paul(at)atdesk.com

• Jim Weirch – jim(at)weirichhouse.org

Contributors:

• Gavin Sinclair – gsinclair(at)soyabean.com.au

• George Marrows – george.marrows(at)ntlworld.com

• Dick Davies – rasputnik(at)hellooperator.net

• Mauricio Fernandez – batsman.geo(at)yahoo.com

• Simon Strandgaard – neoneye(at)adslhome.dk

• Dave Glasser – glasser(at)mit.edu

• Paul Duncan – pabs(at)pablotron.org

• Ville Aine – vaine(at)cs.helsinki.fi

• Eric Hodel – drbrain(at)segment7.net

• Daniel Berger – djberg96(at)gmail.com

• Phil Hagelberg – technomancy(at)gmail.com

• Ryan Davis – ryand-ruby(at)zenspider.com

• Evan Phoenix – evan(at)fallingsnow.net

• Steve Klabnik – steve(at)steveklabnik.com

(If your name is missing, PLEASE let us know!)

See LICENSE.txt for permissions.

Thanks!

-The RubyGems Team