From: Patrick Hurley <phurley@...>
Date: 2006-07-11T02:15:09+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.8.4 One-Click deletes my Rails gems!

On 7/10/06, James Britt <james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeff Cohen wrote:
> > I noticed that Curt posted the 1.8.4 OCI to RubyForge over the weekend,
> > so I used it today to install 1.8.4 (I had 1.8.2 here at work).
> >
> > After doing so, I no longer had any of my Rails gems and need to
> > reinstall (which is a real pain with the firewall here... have to
> > download the gems manually, etc.)
> >
> > Anyone else have this problem?
> >
>
> This was discussed on ruby-talk a few times as Curt was released RC
> versions of the installer.
>
> The installer should have made it clear that it was going to obliterate
> your entire ruby installation destination directory (typically c:\ruby).
>   That happens to be a parent of where gems go, so they are deleted as
> well if you are reusing the same location.
>
> Maybe this is dopey, but have you checked the recycle bin?
>
> (I've decided not to upgrade until I have a good migration plan that
> ensures I do not lose any of my installed gems and other 3rd-party libs
> and files, and do not have to jump through hoops to get everything
> working the same.  Suggestions welcome.)
>
>
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>

Not perfect (at least not automated), but copying your
C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\cache
 directory and then doing a batch install of those files locally works
pretty well. As for non-gem apps, I keep them in version control with
a batch to reinstall.

pth