Announces support for some of the popular Ruby Gems - plugins that adds functionality to the Ruby programming language.

Host Gator, a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller hosting, announced the introduction of standard Ruby on Rails installation support for all its customers.

Ruby on Rails is an open source web application framework written in the Ruby programming language. It provides an environment
for web development wherein developers get to use some of the latest techniques for developing web applications.

The company also announced support for some of the most popular Ruby Gems. A Ruby Gem is a plugin that adds functionality to the Ruby programming language. The pre-installed gems supported include actionmailer, actionpack, actionwebservice, activerecord,
activesupport, gnuplot, mongrel, mysql, tidy, xml-simple, payment, BlueCloth, feedtools and htmltools.

"At Host Gator, we cater to the developer that is passionate about technology and needs all the tools at his disposal required to build dynamic web applications," stated Brent Oxley, President of Host Gator. "Ruby on Rails is a quickly becoming one of the important web
development standards and we would be remiss if we did not provide this support to developers who demand it."