Gem Survey
As seen with techno weenie, Chad Fowler, and originally, Mike Clark. I love lists. Realistically, I’d say that I only use about 20 of these either directly (mongrel, hpricot, rails & et al, rake, piston) or through dependencies (tzinfo, daemons, net:ssh).
actionmailer (1.3.1, 1.2.5) actionpack (1.13.1, 1.12.5) actionwebservice (1.2.1, 1.1.6) activerecord (1.15.1, 1.14.4) activesupport (1.4.0, 1.3.1) aws-s3 (0.3.0) BlueCloth (1.0.0) builder (2.0.0) camping (1.5) capistrano (1.4.0, 1.3.1, 1.2.0) cheat (1.2.1, 1.0.2) color-tools (1.3.0) daemons (1.0.4, 1.0.3, 0.4.4, 0.4.2) deprec (1.2.2, 1.2.1) facets (1.8.8, 1.4.5) gem_plugin (0.2.1) gen (0.41.0) glue (0.41.0) haml (1.0.3) hoe (1.1.6) hpricot (0.5, 0.4) markaby (0.5) metaid (1.0) mime-types (1.15) model_security_generator (0.0.9) mongrel (0.3.13.4) mongrel_cluster (0.2.1) needle (1.3.0) net-sftp (1.1.0) net-ssh (1.0.10) newgem (0.7.1) nitro (0.41.0) og (0.41.0) oz (0.1.1, 0.1) pdf-writer (1.1.3) piston (1.2.1, 1.1.1) radiant (0.5.2) radius (0.5.1) rails (1.2.1, 1.1.6) railsmachine (0.1.2) rake (0.7.1) rapt (0.2.1) rcov (0.7.0.1) RedCloth (3.0.4) redgreen (1.2) rspec (0.7.5, 0.7.4) ruby-breakpoint (0.5.0) rubyforge (0.3.2) rubygems-update (0.9.1) rubyzip (0.9.1) sources (0.0.1) sqlite3-ruby (1.2.0) svn_conf_generator (0.0.3) tattle (1.0.1) termios (0.9.4) transaction-simple (1.3.0) tzinfo (0.3.3) wirble (0.1.2) xml-simple (1.0.10) ZenTest (3.4.3)