Ruby Gems Installed on Web Hosting Servers
NOTE: This is a partial list of the gems installed on our shared hosting servers. If you find one missing or would like to request one be installed, please contact us. To see a typical gem list --local listing on one of our shared hosting servers, please click here.
Ruby on Rails
The following gems are actually all part of Ruby on Rails:
actionmailer
Service layer for easy email delivery and testing
actionpack
Web-flow and rendering framework putting the VC in MVC
actionwebservice
Web service support for Action Pack
activerecord
Implements the ActiveRecord pattern for ORM
activesupport
Support and utility classes used by the Rails framework
Other Ruby Gems
archive-tar-minitar
This handy Ruby gem allows you to manipulate and manage tar archives (in the POSIX standard format) from inside your Ruby programs
asciify
Asciify lets you strip out non-ASCII characters from a string and replace them with something else.
aws-s3
A client library for accessing via REST API Amazon's S3 service
Bloglines4R
The Bloglines4R gem is a library to access the Bloglines API from Ruby
BlueCloth
BlueCloth is a Ruby implementation of Markdown, a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML)
Builder
Builders for MarkUp
capistrano
Capistrano provides you with a framework and a set of utilities for issuing commands in parallel on multiple remote machines using SSH. It is aimed at making the deployment and management of web applications more streamlined.
cmdparse
An advanced command line parser using optparse which supports commands
daemons
A library to create and control daemons
diff-lcs
Provides a list of changes that represent the difference between two sequenced collections
fcgi
The fcgi gem facilitates FastCGI, which we use in concert with mod_fastcgi to accelerate your Ruby on Rails applications
feedtools
The Feedtools gem provides for the generation and parsing of XML feeds
gnuplot
This library lets you interact with and use GNUPlot in your Ruby application
htmltools
This is a Ruby library for building trees representing HTML structure.
madeleine
Madeleine is a Ruby implementation of Object Prevalence
mysql
The MySQL Ruby gem allows you to connect to and use MySQL databases. We fully support MySQL and the Ruby bindings to it.
needle
Needle is a Dependency Injection/Inversion of Control container for Ruby. It supports both type-2 (setter) and type-3 (constructor) injection. It takes advantage of the dynamic nature of Ruby to provide a rich and flexible approach to injecting dependencies.
net-sftp
The net-sftp gem allows you to connect to and make use of secure FTP servers. OCS Solutions also supports secure FTP, so you could use this module to transfer files to and from our servers.
net-ssh
This gem provides you with a pure Ruby implementation of the SSH2 client protocol
PageTemplate
PageTemplate is a simple templating system for Web sites
ParseTree
Extract and enumerate Ruby parse trees with the ParseTree gem
payment
Payment is used to process credit cards and through merchant accounts using payment gateways.
podcast
Create a podcast from MP3 files. Be sure you own the copyright and/or have the rights to broadcast these songs!
rake
Ruby based make-like utility, required by many Ruby applications and gems.
RedCloth
RedCloth is a module that allows the use of Textile and Markdown text formats in Ruby. Textile and Markdown are very simple text formats, which help make readable text easily convertable into HTML.
rfacebook
Gem allowing communication with the popular Facebook social networking system.
RMagick allows you to use the ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick libraries, similar to GD support in PHP or Perl.
RubyInline
RubyInline allows for multi-language extension coding within Ruby
rubyzip
Read and write ZIP Files with the rubyzip Ruby gem
ruwiki is a simple, fast, and extensible Wiki-clone
salted_login_generator
Allows for the quick generation of login systems with salted passwords in the Ruby on Rails framework
shipping
Using this Ruby gem, you can get shipping prices via UPS or FedEx from inside your Ruby program
soap4r
A SOAP 1.1 implementation for Ruby.
sources
This package provides download sources for remote gem installation
s3-ruby
A library for accessing Amazon's S3 system.
syntax
The Syntax gem provides simple syntax highlighting for your Ruby applications
Technorati-Ruby
This gem lets you use services provided by the Technorati website in your Ruby applications. Technorati, among other things, lets you search, in real time, blogs and other frequently updated material.
tidy
The HTML Tidy Library helps you use and output proper HTML, by providing validation services to your Ruby applications. This Ruby gem is a binding to that library.
uuidtools
uuidtools aids with the generation of UUID, which stands for Universally Unique IDentifier. UUID's are used in many programs to make sure that a piece of data or identifier is truely unique, avoiding any conflicts with other data.
vpim
A library to make use of vCards and iCalendars
webgen
A templated based static website generator
wee
A framework for building highly dynamic web applications
xml-simple
xml-simple provides a simple API for XML processing
yax
YAX stands for Yet Another eXpect, with the added benefit of Ruby under its hood