What Ruby gems are installed by default?

A Ruby gem is plugin that enchances the features and functionality of the Ruby programming language. The following is a list of the pre-installed Ruby gems:

  • actionmailer (1.2.1) - Service layer for easy email delivery and testing
  • actionpack (1.12.1) - Web-flow and rendering framework putting the VC in MVC
  • actionwebservice (1.1.2) - Web service support for Action Pack
  • activerecord (1.14.2) - Implements the ActiveRecord pattern for ORM
  • activesupport (1.3.1) - Support and utility classes used by the Rails framework
  • fcgi (0.8.6.1) - The fcgi gem facilitates FastCGI, which we use in concert with mod_fastcgi to accelerate your Ruby on Rails applications
  • gruff (0.1.2) - A library for making graphs
  • mysql (2.7) - The MySQL Ruby gem allows you to connect to and use MySQL databases. We fully support MySQL and the Ruby bindings to it.
  • rails (1.1.2) - The Ruby on Rails package
  • rake (0.7.1) - Ruby based make-like utility, required by many Ruby applications and gems.
  • rmagick (1.10.1) - RMagick allows you to use the ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick libraries, similar to GD support in PHP or Perl.
  • sources (0.0.1) - This package provides download sources for remote gem installation