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@drbrain "# shortcut: 'gem q -L'" here didn't work for me (invalid option) "# shortcut: 'gem q -l'" did. Typo

gem query --remote # shortcut: gem q -R you see will a detailed list of all the gems on the remote server. Sample output (heavily abbreviated): *** REMOTE GEMS *** activerecord (0.8.4, 0.8.3, 0.8.2, 0.8.1, 0.8.0, 0.7.6, 0.7.5) Implements the ActiveRecord pattern for ORM. BlueCloth (0.0.4, 0.0.3, 0.0.2) BlueCloth is a Ruby implementation of Markdown, a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). captcha (0.1.2) Ruby/CAPTCHA is an implementation of the 'Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart'. cardinal (0.0.4) Ruby to Parrot compiler. cgikit (1.1.0) CGIKit is a componented-oriented web application framework like Apple Computers WebObjects. This framework services Model-View-Controller architecture pr...

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