RubyGems is a convenient and powerful Ruby package manager (packagemanager), similar to RedHat's RPM. It packages a Ruby application into a gem as an installation unit. Features: Remote installation of packages. Management of dependencies between packages. Simple and reliable uninstallation query mechanism. Can query package information of local and remote servers. Can maintain different versions of a package. Web-based viewing interface to view what you have installed. gem information.
RubyGems1.8.3 fixes 4 bugs:
Fixed a standalone test issue with est_gem_package_tar_output. Fixed a test failure issue on certain ruby versions of the system. Fixed some harmful call issues left behind after rolling output refactoring. Fixed a Syck parsing error (Psych).