Segment7: RubyGems 0.9.5

RubyGems 0.9.5

drbrain@segment7.net (Eric Hodel) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:35:31 -0800

RubyGems 0.9.5 adds several new features and fixes several bugs.

To upgrade to the latest RubyGems:

gem update --system

To upgrade to the latest RubyGems by hand:

Download RubyGems from http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126&release_id=16500
gem install rubygems-update-0.9.5.gem
update_rubygems

To install RubyGems from scratch:

Download RubyGems source .tgz or .zip file from http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126&release_id=16500
Unpack the source .tgz or .zip
ruby setup.rb

To install RubyGems on Ruby 1.9 update your ruby trunk checkout and reinstall.

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
gem.bat and bin stubs on mswin platforms are improved and compatible with the One-Click Installer
Multi-version diamond dependencies only are installed once
Bulk index updates take less memory
-V now enables verbose instead of -v to avoid collision with—version’s -v
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
Removed gem* commands are now replaced with stubs that warn
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 support and testing
Luis Lavena for win32 support and testing
Tom Copeland for help testing and releasing the new indexer
Wilson Bilkovich for the new Marshal 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 0.9.5" by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:41:52 -0800

Luis Lavena put me on track and refered me to this solution to the Windows/Mongrel problem in the comments above.

For me, however, I could not uninstall 0.9.5. For what I could tell, there is no gem unistall—system command. (did you consider adding that command in a future version?)

What worked for me was a complete reinstall of ruby and gems.

Jesper Rønn-Jensen Blog: www.justaddwater.dk

"RubyGems 0.9.5" by Scott Miller

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:31:48 -0800

This one got me too, using InstantRails on Windows. Took me a bit to figure out how to get back to 0.9.4, if anyone is wondering you have to download it, gem install it, and then run “ruby setup.rb” from the gems directory, from inside your ruby console.

"RubyGems 0.9.5" by Luis Lavena

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:41:31 -0800

Laco: the bug was fixed in rubygems svn.

For the moment, stick to 0.9.4 for Windows until 0.9.5.1 shows sometime soon (I hope) :-)

"RubyGems 0.9.5" by Eric Hodel

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:30:47 -0800

Martin: I disabled trackbacks on purpose since they were 99% spam. Maybe there’s something still lingering.

"RubyGems 0.9.5" by Martin Probst

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:11:07 -0800

By the way the trackback had to be manual as your blog does include the required RDF markup for trackback discovery, but the markup lacks the ‘trackback:ping’ attribute required for trackbacks to work (see http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/docs/trackback_spec).

"RubyGems 0.9.5" by Martin Probst

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:58:02 -0800

Manual trackback: http://www.martin-probst.com/blog/2007/11/21/rubygems-upgrade-0-9-5

I had the same problem as Laco and fixed it by reinstalling all gems.

"RubyGems 0.9.5" by Eric Hodel

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:49:02 -0800

Laco: You’ll need to file a bug. Follow the instructions right up there at the top.

Juanma: Download and install RubyGems 0.9.4 to move back to 0.9.4.

"RubyGems 0.9.5" by Juanma Cervera

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:10:57 -0800

Hi Eric,

I wish I would read the previous message before updating to 0.9.5. Is there a way to get back to 0.9.4? I couldn’t even install mongrel again.

Thanks Juan

"RubyGems 0.9.5" by Laco

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:22:45 -0800

Hi, on Windows platform are Rubygems 0.9.5 breaking mongrel installation. Perhaps because of crazy name like: mongrel-1.1-x86-mswin32-60 but mongrel is in mongrel-1.1-mswin32. I know that rubygems are now selecting gems for platform, but what if I wnat to have a chance to select my prefered package type (like mswin32 instead of ruby or jruby)?

Here’s error I get: c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require’: no such file to load—c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1-x86-mswin32-60/lib/mongrel/init.rb (MissingSourceFile)

Thankx Laco

"RubyGems 0.9.5" by Dejan Dimic

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:58:55 -0800

Thank you for another great version.

"RubyGems 0.9.5" by sgwong

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:10:01 -0800

Great job!! I really like this version. It is so much improvement compare to the previous version. I can see the memory consume decrease dramatically on my windows platform( now the ruby process(1.8) use only ~8MB ). Thanks you!!!

"RubyGems 0.9.5" by Eric Hodel

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:06:20 -0800

The best way to use proxies with RubyGems is to set the HTTP_PROXY, HTTP_PROXY_USER and HTTP_PROXY_PASS to specify the username and password respectively. I think you can specify username and password in the URL (http://user:pass@host), but I don’t think that will work in Ruby 1.9.

Currently OpenURI (which RubyGems uses for most HTTP requests) isn’t able to use NTLM authentication.

"RubyGems 0.9.5" by Jeff

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:56:58 -0800

Awesome!

Can you elaborate on the -p option? I think this will be helpful to those behind a corporate (Microsoft) firewall. Sometimes a username and password is required. Is there a way to specify the username and password along with -p? Or will it prompt as necessary?

Thanks again for maintaining RubyGems for the benefit of the whole community.

Jeff