From: Ben Bleything <ben@...>
Date: 2009-06-12T23:49:51+09:00
Subject: Re: ri for gems working?

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Tom Cloyd<tomcloyd@comcast.net> wrote:
> Precisely my reaction. I'll say it again: If you code up something cool,
> then don't market it, what's the point? Saying - "go read the code" doesn't
> cut it. Put a message somewhere in the  installation output. In this - Eric
> H. - your wonderful Rubygems install/update CLI output needs an addition,
> I'd say.

gem server has been around _forever_.  It's in gem help. It's
mentioned in every book I've seen that talks about the RubyGems
system.  Until this thread I thought it was common knowledge.

This isn't a marketing failure, though.  You can't call out every
feature every time, plus many (most?) people never actually run the
rubygems installer.  It is the user's responsibility to know their
tools.  In this case, thinking "I wonder how to read the docs on a
gem?" and then running 'gem help' would have shown this immediately.

Ben