The ruby package provides the Ruby interpreter and adds support for the Ruby programming language. The ruby-devel package contains the libraries and header files needed for developing Ruby extensions.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux also ships with numerous ruby-related packages. By convention, the names of these packages have a ruby or rubygem prefix or suffix. Such packages are either library extensions or Ruby bindings to an existing library. For instance, ruby-dbus is a Ruby language binding for D-Bus.
Examples of ruby-related packages include:
ruby-flexmock
rubygem-flexmock
rubygems
ruby-irb
ruby-libguestfs
ruby-libs
ruby-qmf
ruby-qpid
ruby-rdoc
ruby-ri
ruby-saslwrapper
ruby-static
ruby-tcltk
For information about updates to the Ruby language in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, refer to the following resources:
