RubyGems 1.2.0

drbrain@segment7.net (Eric Hodel) — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:32:00 -0700

Announce: RubyGems Release 1.2.0

Release 1.2.0 adds new features and fixes some bugs.

New features:

RubyGems no longer performs bulk updates and instead only fetches the gemspec files it needs. Alternate sources will need to upgrade to RubyGems 1.2 to allow RubyGems to take advantage of the new metadata updater. If a pre 1.2 remote source is in the sources list, RubyGems will revert to the bulk update code for compatibility.
RubyGems now has runtime and development dependency types. Use #add_development_dependency and #add_runtime_dependency. All typeless dependencies are considered to be runtime dependencies.
RubyGems will now require rubygems/defaults/operating_system.rb and rubygems/defaults/#{RBX_ENGINE}.rb if they exist. This allows packagers and ruby implementers to add custom behavior to RubyGems via these files. (If the RubyGems API is insufficient, please suggest improvements via the RubyGems list.)
/etc/gemrc (and windows equivalent) for global settings
setup.rb now handles—vendor and—destdir for packagers
gem stale command that lists gems by last access time

Bugs Fixed:

File modes from gems are now honored, patch #19737
Marshal Gem::Specification objects from the future can now be loaded.
A trailing / is now added to remote sources when missing, bug #20134
Gems with legacy platforms will now be correctly uninstalled, patch #19877
gem install --no-wrappers followed by gem install --wrappers no longer overwrites executables
gem pristine now forces reinstallation of gems, bug #20387
RubyGems gracefully handles ^C while loading .gemspec files from disk, bug #20523
Paths are expanded in more places, bug #19317, bug #19896
Gem::DependencyInstaller resets installed gems every install, bug #19444
Gem.default_path is now honored if GEM_PATH is not set, patch #19502

Other Changes Include:

setup.rb
- stub files created by RubyGems 0.7.x and older are no longer removed. When upgrading from these ancient versions, upgrade to 1.1.x first to clean up stubs.
- RDoc is no longer required until necessary, patch #20414
gem server
- Now completely matches the output of gem generate_index and has correct content types
- Refreshes from source directories for every hit. The server will no longer need to be restarted after installing gems.
`gem query—details` and friends now display author, homepage, rubyforge url and installed location
gem install without -i no longer reinstalls dependencies if they are in GEM_PATH but not in GEM_HOME
Gem::RemoteFetcher now performs persistent connections for HEAD requests, bug #7973

For a full list of changes to RubyGems and the contributor for each change, see the ChangeLog file.

Special thanks to Chad Wooley for backwards compatibility testing and Luis Lavena for continuing windows support.

How can I get RubyGems?

NOTE: If you have installed RubyGems using a package system you may want to install a new RubyGems through the same packaging system.

If you have a recent version of RubyGems (0.8.5 or later), then all you need to do is:

$ gem update --system   (you might need to be admin/root)

(Note: You may have to run the command twice if you have any previosly installed rubygems-update gems).

If you have an older version of RubyGems installed, then you can still do it in two steps:

$ gem install rubygems-update  (again, might need to be admin/root)
$ update_rubygems              (... here too)

If you don’t have any gems install, there is still the pre-gem approach to getting software … doing it manually:

DOWNLOAD FROM: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126
UNPACK INTO A DIRECTORY AND CD THERE
INSTALL WITH: ruby setup.rb (you may need admin/root privilege)

To File Bugs

The RubyGems bug tracker can be found on RubyForge at: 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`.

Thanks

Keep those gems coming!

Jim & Chad & Eric (for the RubyGems team)

"RubyGems 1.2.0" by Joannou Ng

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:41:14 -0700

Thank the Lords of Kobol!

"RubyGems 1.2.0" by foz

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:11:08 -0700

Great release – RubyGems is rockin now!

"RubyGems 1.2.0" by topfunky

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:02:51 -0700

A smashing update, and much faster. Thanks!

"RubyGems 1.2.0" by Collin VanDyck

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:18:28 -0700

“It should reduce memory consumption for metadata updates. I don’t know if that is the entirety of the problem, but it should be a large portion of it.”

Fingers crossed on that one. I, and others I have talked with, have upgraded our slices to 512MB because of gem memory issues. Great work on the release guys!

"RubyGems 1.2.0" by Mislav

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:30:25 -0700

I’ve been waiting for this update for a long time. It solves so much! Big thanks to Eric and others.

"RubyGems 1.2.0" by Eric Hodel

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:01:05 -0700

It should reduce memory consumption for metadata updates. I don’t know if that is the entirety of the problem, but it should be a large portion of it.

"RubyGems 1.2.0" by Hongli Lai

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:14:52 -0700

Does this solve the excessive memory consumption that VPS users reported? With 1.1.1, people said that their VPS would swap to death during a gem install, even with—no-rdoc—no-ri.

"RubyGems 1.2.0" by Roman Le Négrate

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:15:16 -0700

No-bulk-update: definitely a great improvement! Thank you so much for that. It was driving me crazy, sometimes taking minutes to install a poor, single gem. Now it’s blazing fast, so congratulations on this one.

"RubyGems 1.2.0" by Phil

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:13:31 -0700

Rock on! Thanks for the awesomeness.

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