FINDING GEMS

The search command lets you find remote gems by name. You can use regular expression characters in your query:

$ gem search ^rails

*** REMOTE GEMS ***

rails (7.0.3)
rails-3-settings (0.1.1)
rails-acm (0.1.0)
rails-action-args (0.1.1)
rails-action-authorization (1.1.2)
[...]

If you see a gem you want more information on you can add the details option. You’ll want to do this with a small number of gems, though, as listing gems with details requires downloading more files:

$ gem search ^rails$ -d

*** REMOTE GEMS ***

rails (7.0.3)
    Author: David Heinemeier Hansson
    Homepage: https://rubyonrails.org

    Full-stack web application framework.

You can also search for gems on rubygems.org such as this search for rake