From: Jeff <cohen.jeff@...>
Date: 2009-04-30T10:01:37+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems question: install vs. update

On Apr 29, 5:16 pm, Eric Hodel <drbr...@segment7.net> wrote:
> On Apr 29, 2009, at 14:16, Jeff wrote:
>
> > This must be obvious, but what's the difference between "gem install"
> > and "gem update"?
>
> > I would have thought that "gem update" would do a gem install plus a
> > gem cleanup, effectively updating your current version.  But that
> > doesn't seem to be the case.
>
> gem update will update a named gem if there's a newer version, gem  
> install will always install.

Hi Eric,

But when I try to update a named gem, I get the new version, but also
still have the old version (if I do gem list I can see both
versions).  So maybe I'm missing what you mean by "update" - looks to
me like it simply installed the new one alongside the old one, no
different than if I had done "gem install" to install the latest
version.

I'm currently on RubyGems 1.3.2.

Thanks again,
Jeff