Ruby
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Ruby is an object-oriented programming language the combines the features of other popular languages.
Ruby on DreamHost
As of 11-August-2008, DreamHost is running Ruby version 1.8.7 located at /usr/bin/ruby.
To see what is available on your server, from the shell, type:
which ruby ruby -v
DreamHost has also installed RubyGems as /usr/bin/gem You can see what items are installed by doing:
gem list | more
You can also see the current versions of Ruby, Ruby on Rails and a list of installed gems at http://rails.dreamhosters.com.