RubyGemsEdit

Links

• Project information page: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems/
• Manuals: http://rubygems.org/
• Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RubyGems

Notes

RubyGems are actually tar archives.

$ ls -laF *.gem
-rw-r--r--  1 wincent  75776 19 abr 22:57 wikitext-1.10.1.99.gem
$ tar tvf wikitext-1.10.1.99.gem
-rw-r--r--  0 wheel  wheel   72208  1 ene  1970 data.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  0 wheel  wheel     930  1 ene  1970 metadata.gz
$ tar xvf wikitext-1.10.1.99.gem
x data.tar.gz
x metadata.gz
$ tar tvf data.tar.gz
-rwxr-xr-x  0 wheel  wheel    3495  1 ene  1970 bin/wikitext
-rw-r--r--  0 wheel  wheel    1671  1 ene  1970 ext/extconf.rb
-rw-r--r--  0 wheel  wheel    3114  1 ene  1970 ext/ary.c
-rw-r--r--  0 wheel  wheel  112949  1 ene  1970 ext/parser.c
-rw-r--r--  0 wheel  wheel    3238  1 ene  1970 ext/str.c
...
$ gunzip metadata.gz
$ cat metadata
--- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification
name: wikitext
version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version
  prerelease: false
  segments:
  - 1
  - 10
  - 1
  - 99
  version: 1.10.1.99
platform: ruby