From: Cali Wildman Date: 2008-06-25T05:34:07+09:00 Subject: Difference between site_ruby and gems I am trying to understand the difference between site_ruby (Ruby extensions and libraries) and gems. I read that extensions are generally meant for more low-level type extensions usually written say in C. However, in my current setup, I use htree which is deployed as an extension but AFAIK written entirely in Ruby. Does anyone know why something like htree shouldn't be deployed as a gems instead? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.