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Perl has CPAN (www.cpan.org), JavaScript has JSAN (www.openjsan.org), and Python has a darkened crypt (http://py.vaults.ca). Ruby also has a unified packaging system for supplementing the evailable cloud of libraries on a system: RubyGems. Each individual bundle of functionality under this scheme is called a gem and contains, as you will see, all of the code and metainformation pertinent to given library.
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© 2007 André Ben Hamou
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(2007). Extending Ruby: A Fistful of Gems. In: Practical Ruby for System Administration. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0194-6_10
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