Web hosting provider Host Gator announced on Monday the launch of standard Ruby on Rails installation support.

Ruby on Rails is an open source Web application framework written in the Ruby programming language. Host Gator says it provides an efficient environment for Web development, enabling developers to use some of the latest techniques for developing Web applications.

“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,” says 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 also announced support for some Ruby Gems, including actionmailer, actionpack, actionwebservice, activerecord, activesupport, gnuplot, mongrel, mysql, tidy, xml-simple, payment, BlueCloth, feedtools and htmltools.