Practical Ruby Gems

Using RubyGems.- What Is RubyGems?.- Installing RubyGems.- Using RubyGems in Your Code.- Managing Installed Gem Versions.- Using Particular Gems.- Data Access with the ActiveRecord Gem.- Easy Text Markup with the BlueCloth Gem.- Creating Web Applications with Camping.- Creating Command-Line Utilities with cmdparse.- HTML Templating with erubis.- Parsing Feeds with feedtools.- Creating Graphical User Interfaces with fxruby.- Retrieving Stock Quotes with YahooFinance.- Parsing HTML with hpricot.- Writing HTML as Ruby with Markaby.- Parsing CSV with fastercsv.- Multiple Dispatch with multi.- Serving Web Applications with mongrel.- Transferring Files Securely with net-sftp.- Executing Commands on Remote Servers with net-ssh.- Validating Credit Cards with creditcard.- Writing PDFs with pdf-writer.- Handling Recurring Events with runt.- Building Websites with Rails.- Automating Development Tasks with rake.- Manipulating Images with RMagick.- Speeding Up Web Applications with memcache-client.- Managing Zip Archives with rubyzip.- Speeding Up Function Calls with memoize.- Tagging MP3 Files with id3lib-ruby.- Shortening URLs with shorturl.- Creating Standalone Ruby Applications with rubyscript2exe.- Cleaning Dirty HTML with tidy.- Parsing XML with xml-simple.- Creating Gems.- Creating Our Own Gems.- Distributing Gems.