---
name: "gem"
section: "1"
platform: "macos"
package: "ruby"
version: "175"
release: "macOS 26.5"
platforms: ["linux", "macos"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gem"
---

# gem(1)

RubyGems program

## NAME

**gem** – RubyGems program

## SYNOPSIS

**gem** *command* \[*arguments...*\] \[*options...*\]

## DESCRIPTION

RubyGems is a sophisticated package manager for the Ruby programming language. On OS X the default bindir for gems that install binaries is /Library/Ruby/bin.

For more information about it, you can use its **--help** flag. There is also online documentation available at "http://docs.rubygems.org".

## SEE ALSO

[ruby(1)](/ruby/1.md)

## AUTHORS

RubyGems was originally developed at RubyConf 2003 by Rich Kilmer, Chad Fowler, David Black, Paul Brannan and Jim Weirch, and has received a lot of contributions since then. You can obtain the RubyGems sources at http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems/.