February 5, 2007 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Web hosting provider Host Gator (http://www.hostgator.com) has made Rudy on Rails a standard feature for its web hosting plans, the company announced today. Rudy on Rails is a free open source application for developers, which has gained considerable popularity within the developer community.
"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 didn't provide this support to developers who demand it."
Host Gator has also announced support for Ruby Gems. Ruby Gems are plugins that add 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.
