- Remote installation of packages
- Dependency management
- Easy and reliable uninstallation
- Querying features, local and remote
- Can have multiple versions of the same package installed
- Web-based interface to view the documentation for your installed gems
Has anyone tried out Ruby and RubyGems? I've played around with it for
a brief period of time, and although did not find the Ruby language as
spectacular as some people claim it to be (maybe it's because I tried
Smalltalk first?), RubyGems is something that really opened up my eyes.
...
Compared to my experience with SqueakMap, RubyGems is much easier and
problem-free to use and deal with.
What's not
RubyGems is "dead code" (scripts and text files), not live code
as in SqueakMap. So the features it accomplishes could be done by
extending SqueakMap's framework, but not vice versa.