From: Dale Martenson <dmartenson@...>
Date: 2005-08-10T23:47:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Update installed gems

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---- Original message from Chad Fowler&nbsp; on 8/10/2005 6:41 AM:
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  <pre wrap="">On 8/9/05, Dale Martenson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dmartenson@multitech.com">&lt;dmartenson@multitech.com&gt;</a> wrote:
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    <pre wrap="">---- Original message from Ezra Zygmuntowicz  on 8/9/2005 12:28 PM:

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      <pre wrap="">On Aug 9, 2005, at 10:18 AM, Dale Martenson wrote:

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        <pre wrap="">I build my own gems as a way to distribute a variety of utilities
where I work. What is the best way to install updates?

If I distribute a new gem file, provided by email/ftp/web how can a
user install the update? Should they just re-install? "gem update
&lt;blah&gt;" doesn't seem to have a "--local" option. If you place the
file in your current directory, it seems to be ignored and I am not
sure how to specify a gem update file. While "gem install" will
automatically look both for the gem locally and remotely, "gem
update" doesn't.

Maybe, this is a bad question since "gem update" is meant to look
for updates that are not locally available. But this doesn't seem
consistent with the way "gem install works".

How difficult is it to implement a simple gem server?
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$ gem_server
On the command line. This serves you rdoc documentation and it can
act as a local gem repository server. I've never set up the local
repo so perhaps someone else can chime in./ But it already has
features to do exactly what you want.

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    <pre wrap="">I will give that a try, but it seems like it is meant to serve your
installed gems. If someone wanted to host and variety of gems (different
versions of gems -- stable, bleeding edge, etc.), I don't think
"gem_server" is the answer. Any ideas what is? Or am I understanding
this incorrectly.


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Hi.  gem_server can definitely do what you want.   You can serve gems
from an alternate directory (with the -d param) if you want to include
a lot of bleeding edge gems that you don't want "installed" on the
host system.  Also, if you look in the rubygems distribution under the
"bin" directory, you'll find generate_yaml_index.rb, which you can
use to create a static yaml file that you could serve with your web
server of choice.  So you'd have:

<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://yourserver.whatever.org/yaml">http://yourserver.whatever.org/yaml</a>
and
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youserver.whatever.org/gems/mygems.gem">http://youserver.whatever.org/gems/mygems.gem</a>

If you have that structure available,  you can serve gems from a
normal web server.

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Thanks for the information. I will give it a try.<br>
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