From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2008-06-04T03:06:56+09:00
Subject: Re: general query about ruby libraries

On Tuesday 03 June 2008 10:44:47 Sandip Gangakhedkar wrote:

> What about tarballs? Or zip files?
> I am aware of RubyGems. However, lots of new and recent libraries, 
> especially the ones hosted on github are not yet available as gems.

If a library is new enough to not be available as a gem, I'm not sure I'd want 
to install it system-wide. You can always put it somewhere in your home 
directory and add it to the RUBYLIB environment variable.