what is the best to use - ruby gems or ruby plugins

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Hi All,

What is the best practice when creating a rails project

1 - is it good to use ruby gems 2 - or is it good to use ruby plugins (as almost all the gems has their plugin versions)

and what are the strengths and weaknesses of eachoption

consider we are creating the rails project with rails 2.x.x or rails 3

thanks in advance

cheers, sameera

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