From: Chad Woolley <thewoolleyman@...>
Date: 2009-08-26T14:47:20+09:00
Subject: [ANN] GemInstaller 0.5.3 Released

GemInstaller 0.5.3 has been released!

GemInstaller
   by Chad Woolley
   http://geminstaller.rubyforge.org

== CHANGES
* 0.5.3 / 2009-08-25
* Many long overdue bugfixes and patches, see
http://tinyurl.com/geminstaller-0-5-3-release for details.
* Thanks to Greg Fitzgerald, Britt Crawford, John Trupiano, Gabriel
Gironda, and Eric Hodel for patches and assistance.
* Issues with case statement under Ruby 1.9
* GemInstaller cannot distinguish between gems that have the ame name
but capitalized differently.
* add ./ci as default location for config file
* Disable GemInstaller install in default rails preinitializer.rb, but
fork if it is used
* autogem() fails when run for newly-installed gem
* Sometimes installing fails due to RubyGems cache not being cleared
between multiple API calls

== DESCRIPTION:

Automated Gem installation, activation, and much more!

== FEATURES:

GemInstaller provides automated installation, loading and activation
of RubyGems.  It uses a simple YAML config file to:

* Automatically install the correct versions of all required gems
wherever your app runs.
* Automatically ensure installed gems and versions are consistent
across multiple applications, machines, platforms, and environments
* Automatically activate correct versions of gems on the ruby load
path when your app runs ('require_gem'/'gem')
* Automatically reinstall missing dependency gems (built in to RubyGems > 1.0)
* Automatically detect correct platform to install for multi-platform
gems (built in to RubyGems > 1.0)
* Print YAML for "rogue gems" which are not specified in the current
config, to easily bootstrap your config file, or find gems that were
manually installed without GemInstaller.
* Allow for common configs to be reused across projects or
environments by supporting multiple config files, including common
config file snippets, and defaults with overrides.
* Allow for dynamic selection of gems, versions, and platforms to be
used based on environment vars or any other logic.
* Avoid the "works on demo, breaks on production" syndrome
* Find lost socks.

=== Quick Start:

See http://geminstaller.rubyforge.org/documentation/index.html

== INSTALL:

* [sudo] gem install geminstaller