Where can I find a collection Of Ruby Gems?

Question

Where can I find a collection of free available Ruby gems? Why reinvent the wheel if a gem is already available that you can re-use?

Answer 1

RubyForge is the place to go.

Answer 2

Wikipedia says:

gem list -r -d

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RubyGems

Answer 3

Here's a list of RubyGems at GitHub:

http://gems.github.com/list.html

Instructions on how to download are at the top of the page. It's no CPAN though...

Answer 4

There are really only two important sources for gems available:

1. RubyForge
2. GitHub