From: Brandon Hoult <bhoult@...>
Date: 2006-03-09T03:52:51+09:00
Subject: Re: html gem description like CPAN for ruby?

Basically I would like to be able to find what is available in a 
somewhat complete state to do a given thing.  Rubyforge gives a bunch of 
stuff, but most of it is still in early development and is not 
documented etc.  My assumption is that if they bothered to package it as 
a gem then it would hopefully be more completely functional.

If I search for a gem using the command line then I get a basic 
description, often there are several alternatives. Other than installing 
them there is no way for me to determine which one is most sutable.  In 
CPAN I can look at the documentation for each available module to see 
which resembles what I want.

As the list of gems grows it will be more important to be able to get 
details about the gems prior to actually installing them.  Until then, 
this: http://rubyforge.org/softwaremap/trove_list.php is the best 
alternative I have found.

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