From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2005-02-16T07:40:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Corporate RubyGems Repository

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 01:54:52 +0900, Roustem Karimov
<roustem.karimov@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am working on a few in-house ruby projects. We have different
> environments and rubygems looks like a great way to install and manage
> ruby apps across multiple servers.
> 
> I configured internal gems repository and setup rake to publish the
> apps. Everything is perfect except one small thing. Gem tool expects to
> have "/yaml.Z" or "/yaml" file in the repository with all gemspecs in
> it. I create it manually for now...
> 

Very cool!  David Heinemeir Hansson is also doing this for the beta
gems of Rails.  For a simple solution, you can also use the gem_server
that comes with RubyGems, but it requires you to leave a webrick
process running.

> Is there a code to generate yaml file out of all gems in the
> repository?
> 

Rich created this for RubyForge.  I think it will do what you want:

http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/rubygems/bin/generate_yaml_index.rb?rev=1.2&cvsroot=rubygems&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup


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