Linux Journal is running an article about Ruby Gems. Gems is a package management system for Ruby that will allow you to install, update or remove Ruby libraries, and can even handle multiple versions of the same library. This short tutorial explains how to use Gems as both a user and developer as well as how to roll your own packages.

Ruby is an object-oriented, interpreted scripting language whose niche seems to be quite similar to that currently occupied by PERL. Ruby on Rails is a rapid development web framework based on Ruby.