Detailed Searching for Rubygems

I'm currently investigating how best to integrate tumblr with vim and markdown, and looking to ruby to provide some help.

I'm still very new to Ruby and its tooling so I was finding it hard to see the details of available remote gems.

I was labouring:

$ gem search --remote tumblr
*** REMOTE GEMS ***
integrity-tumblr (0.1.1)
matenia-tumblr-api (0.1.6)
ruby-tumblr (0.0.2)
skinnycms_tumblr (0.0.2)
tumblr (2.2.0)
tumblr-api (0.1.4)
tumblr-rb (1.3.0)
tumblr4r (0.7.2)
tumblr_cleanr (0.0.1)

Then for each interesting result: 

$ gem specification --remote <gem>

This brought back a lof interesting information but it is hardly an efficient way to browse. Digging into the docs I found an easier way.

$ gem search -r -d tumblr
*** REMOTE GEMS ***
integrity-tumblr (0.1.1)
    Author: Mat&#237;as Flores
    Rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/integrity
    Homepage: http://github.com/matflores/integrity-tumblr
    Tumblr notifier for the Integrity continuous integration server
 
matenia-tumblr-api (0.1.6)
    Author: Jeff Kreeftmeijer, Matenia Rossides
    Homepage: http://github.com/matenia/tumblr
    Tumblr API wrapper - maintained by matenia

The -r is the short notation for --remote, and -d is the short notation for --details. The default for the search action is --no-details, which is why the initial resultset was so unhelpful.