Michael Morin is a computer programmer specializing in Linux and Ruby. He has 30 years of experience studying, teaching and using the programming language. Many gems are hosted on git repositories, such as the public repositories on Github. However, to get the latest version, quite often there are no gems built for you to install with ease. Installing from git is quite easy though. First, you have
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