Use the following command to query a gem’s detail information with the gem name as the query condition:
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| gem query -d -b -n maruku
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The output of this command is:
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*** LOCAL GEMS ***
maruku (0.6.0)
Author: Andrea Censi
Homepage: http://maruku.rubyforge.org
Installed at: /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290
Maruku is a Markdown-superset interpreter written in Ruby.
*** REMOTE GEMS ***
literate_maruku (0.1.3)
Author: Gregor Schmidt
Homepage: http://github.com/schmidt/literate_maruku
Literate programming for Ruby based on Maruku.
maruku (0.6.0)
Author: Andrea Censi
Homepage: http://maruku.rubyforge.org
Maruku is a Markdown-superset interpreter written in Ruby.
maruku-jbrains (0.6.2)
Author: J. B. Rainsberger
Homepage: http://github.com/jbrains/maruku
Render Markdown documents, with a few extras
patcito-maruku (0.6.0)
Author: Andrea Censi
Rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/maruku
Homepage: http://maruku.rubyforge.org
Maruku is a Markdown-superset interpreter written in Ruby.
scratch_pad-filters-maruku (0.0.3)
Author: Raving Genius
Rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/scratch_pad-filters-maruku
Homepage: https://github.com/ravinggenius/scratch_pad-filters-maruku
Maruku-wrapping filter gem for ScratchPad
sinatra-maruku (1.0.0.2)
Author: Wlodek Bzyl
Homepage: http://github.com/wbzyl/sinatra-maruku
An extension providing Maruku templates for Sinatra applications.
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-n: indicate the gem name;
-d: detail information;
-b: query from both local and remote repositories.
This “gem query” command of gem looks very similar to the “apt-cache search” command of “apt“.
I refer here.