From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-03-27T02:12:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Areal noob question

Hi --

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Ryan and Kate Huff wrote:

> Can Ruby run without rails?

Yes: Ruby is a general-purpose programming language.  Rails is a
framework (a suite of programs and programming libraries) written in
Ruby.  Ruby was around and in regular use for about 11 years before
Rails was written.

> Do I have to have Ruby gems or is there other ways of using
> packages/extensions?

It all depends what the package's author (or some third party)
prepares and releases.  Gem format is very popular; you'll also find a
lot of things released as plain tar.gz or .zip files, and there's also
another package-manager in/for Ruby called rpa-base.


David

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