RubyGems Beta 0.9.4.5

drbrain@segment7.net (Eric Hodel) — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:43:55 -0700

RubyGems 0.9.4.5 is a beta release for the upcoming 0.9.5 which adds several new features and fixes several bugs.

To upgrade to the beta:

gem update --system --source http://segment7.net/

To file bugs:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=add&group_id=126&atid=575

When filing a bug, gem env output will be helpful in diagnosing the issue.

If you find a bug where RubyGems crashes, please provide debug output. You can do that with gem --debug the_command. For example:

<samp>$ gem --debug unknown_command
Exception `RuntimeError' at [...]/rubygems/command_manager.rb:114 - Unknown command unknown_command
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
    Unknown command unknown_command
        [...]/rubygems/command_manager.rb:114:in `find_command'
        [...]/rubygems/command_manager.rb:103:in `process_args'
        [...]/rubygems/command_manager.rb:74:in `run'
        [...]/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:39:in `run'
        /usr/local/bin/gem:22</samp>

Changes

Select new features include:

Automatic installation of platform gems
New bandwidth and memory friendlier index file format
“Offline” mode (—no-update-sources)
Bulk update threshold can be specified (-B,—bulk-threshold)
New gem fetch command
gem now has “really verbose” output when you specify -v
Ruby 1.9 compatible

Other changes include:

Time::today is deprecated and will be removed at a future date
gem install --include-dependencies (-y) is now deprecated since it is the default, use—ignore-dependencies to turn off automatic dependency installation
Multi-version diamond dependencies only are installed once
Processing a YAML bulk index update takes less memory
gem install -i makes sure all depenencies are installed
gem update --system reinstalls into the prefix it was originally installed in
gem update --system respects—no-rdoc and—no-ri flags
HTTP basic authentication support for proxies
Gem::Specification#platforms should no longer be a String, use Gem::Platform::CURRENT when building binary gems instead
gem env has more diagnostic information
require ‘rubygems’ loads less code
sources.gem is gone, RubyGems now uses built-in defaults
gem install --source will no longer add—source by default, use gem sources --add to make it a permanent extra source
gem query (list) no longer prints details by default
Exact gem names are matched in various places
mkrf extensions are now supported
A gem can depend on a specific RubyGems version
gem_server is now gem server
gemlock is now gem lock
gem_mirror is now gem mirror
gemwhich is now gem which
gemri is no longer included with RubyGems
index_gem_repository.rb is now gem generate_index
gem performs more validation of parameters
Custom rdoc styles are now supported
Gem indexer no longer removes quick index during index creation
Kernel#require only rescues a LoadError for the file being required now
gem dependencies can now display some information for remote gems

Notes and issues:

Old gem scripts (gem_mirror, gem_server, gemlock, gemri, gemwhich, index_gem_repository.rb) are not cleaned up
There still appears to be a bug related to bulk updates of YAML indexes

Special Thanks

Daniel Berger for win32 testing of early betas
Luis Lavena for help with win32 platforms
Tom Copeland for help testing and releasing the new indexer
Wilson Bilkovich for the new index format
To the rest of the RubyGems bug reporters and patch contributors

The full set of changes including contributors is included in the ChangeLog.

Platforms

RubyGems now automatically handles platform gems. This means that gem install will no longer prompt for gem selection. RubyGems uses Ruby’s built-in configuration to match the running ruby’s platform to choose the correct gem to install. The automatically chosen platform may be overridden with the—platform option.

The dependency, fetch, install, outdated, specification, uninstall and update commands all respond to—platform.

For more information, see gem help platforms

Thanks

Keep those gems coming!

—Jim & Chad & Eric (for the RubyGems team)

"RubyGems Beta 0.9.4.5" by Mike Harris

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:55:41 -0700

Bravo on the platform detection. RubyGems is in great hands.

"RubyGems Beta 0.9.4.5" by Eric Hodel

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:03:40 -0700

Awesome Trevor, thanks for the report!

"RubyGems Beta 0.9.4.5" by Trevor Turk

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:00:24 -0700

I was having a problem installing gems on a small Slicehost server, possibly because of the memory-unfriendly index stuff…? In any case, this new version seems to have solved that straight away. Much thanks!

(http://forum.slicehost.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=672)

"RubyGems Beta 0.9.4.5" by Roger Pack

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:00:35 -0700

Thanks for doing that, Eric.

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