Wonder what all those gems are that you find being installed/used when you do:
rails new app
Here’s a breakdown (all gems can be found doing a search on http://rubygems.org/)
Using rake (10.0.4)
Ruby Make
Using i18n (0.6.4)
Internationalization for Ruby
Installing minitest (4.7.4)
minitest is a complete suite of testing facilities supporting TDD, BDD, mocking and benchmarking
http://rubygems.org/gems/minitest
Using multi_json (1.7.3)
A gem to provide easy switching between different JSON backends, including Oj, Yajl, the JSON gem (with C-extensions), the pure-Ruby JSON gem, and OkJson.
http://rubygems.org/gems/multi_json
Using atomic (1.1.9)
an Atomic class that guarantees atomic updates to its contained value
http://rubygems.org/gems/atomic
Using thread_safe (0.1.0)
A collection of thread-safe versions of common core Ruby classes
http://rubydoc.info/gems/thread_safe/0.1.0/frames
Using tzinfo (0.3.37)
TZInfo is a Ruby library that uses the standard tz (Olson) database to provide daylight savings aware transformations between times in different time zones.
http://rubygems.org/gems/tzinfo
Using activesupport (4.0.0.rc1)
A toolkit of support libraries and Ruby core extensions extracted from the Rails framework. Rich support for multibyte strings, internationalization, time zones, and testing.
http://rubydoc.info/gems/activesupport/3.2.13/frames
Using builder (3.1.4)
Builder provides a number of builder objects that make creating structured data simple to do. Currently the following builder objects are supported: * XML Markup * XML Events
http://rubygems.org/gems/builder
Using erubis (2.7.0)
Erubis is an implementation of eRuby (Embedded Ruby), a templating system that embeds Ruby in a text document.
http://rubygems.org/gems/erubis
Using rack (1.5.2)
Rack provides an interface for developing web applications.
and
http://rack.rubyforge.org/doc/
Using rack-test (0.6.2)
Tests
Using actionpack (4.0.0.rc1)
Web apps on Rails
http://rubygems.org/gems/actionpack
Using mime-types (1.23)
Mime-types
Using polyglot (0.3.3)
Polyglot provides a registry of file types that can be loaded by calling its improved version of ‘require’. It also allows a Ruby module to register a loader for the file type associated with a filename extension.
Using treetop (1.4.12)
A Ruby-based text parsing and interpretation DSL
Using mail (2.5.4)
Ruby mail handler
Using actionmailer (4.0.0.rc1)
Email on Rails
Using activemodel (4.0.0.rc1)
Toolkit for building modelling frameworks like Active Record and Active Resource.
Using activerecord-deprecated_finders (1.0.2)
Using arel (4.0.0)
SQL AST (abstract syntax tree) manager for Ruby. It simplifies the generation of complex SQL queries.
Using activerecord (4.0.0.rc1)
Databases on Rails. Build a persistent domain model by mapping database tables to Ruby classes.
Using bundler (1.3.5)
Manage gems.
Installing coffee-script-source (1.6.2)
Installing execjs (1.4.0)
Installing coffee-script (2.2.0)
Language that compiles into JavaScript.
Using thor (0.18.1)
A scripting framework that replaces rake, sake, rubigen.
Using railties (4.0.0.rc1)
see earlier post
Installing coffee-rails (4.0.0)
CoffeeScript adapter.
Using hike (1.2.2)
Finding files in a set of paths.
Installing jbuilder (1.0.2)
Create JSON structures via a Builder-style DSL.
Installing jquery-rails (2.2.1)
jQuery for Rails.
Installing json (1.8.0)
JSON
Using tilt (1.4.1)
Generic interface to multiple Ruby template engines
Using sprockets (2.10.0)
Using sprockets-rails (2.0.0.rc4)
Rack-based asset packaging system that concatenates and serves JavaScript, CoffeeScript, etc.
Using rails (4.0.0.rc1)
should be pretty straightforward…!
Installing rdoc (3.12.2)
docs
Installing sass (3.2.9)
Installing sass-rails (4.0.0.rc1)
Extension to CSS3
Installing sdoc (0.3.20)
rdoc generator
Installing sqlite3 (1.3.7)
SQLite interface
Installing turbolinks (1.1.1)
Turbolinks makes following links in your web application faster (use with Rails Asset Pipeline). Similar to pjax (pjax = pushState + ajax). Does not require jQuery but works great with jQuery.
Installing uglifier (2.1.1)
Ruby wrapper for UglifyJS JavaScript compressor
Your bundle is complete!
And so is this whirlwind tour!