From: Markus Fischer <markus@...>
Date: 2011-03-27T21:39:03+09:00
Subject: Re: gem list --remote --details gives "ERROR: While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)"

Hi,

On 27.03.2011 13:50, Nick Klauer wrote:
> I guess we should bring this conversation back around to the heart of the
> matter: what is it that you want to accomplish by listing all 22,000+ gems
> on your local machine?
> 
> I mean, there are search engines devoted specifically to listing out gems
> for you (http://www.gemcutter.org, http://www.rubydoc.info/) and giving you
> some pertinent details about the gem itself (such as where to go for more
> information).  There are resources to help you find the best gem for the
> task at hand (http://ruby-toolbox.com/), and plenty of other places to find
> out about gems.

indeed .. I didn't realize this, seriously. Whenever I used a ruby
software before, which required a certain gem, not every software
clearly says "use this or that gem", I mostly used "gem list --remote| |
grep name" to figure the right one. I use this because the default
pattern you can pass to gem only checks for gems beginning with that
name ... There are other such inconveniences, like "gem help" telling me
I need "gem help commands" to see all of them. I'd expect "gem help" or
"gem --help" telling my that. I there weren't the examples, "gem help"
by itself would only be another help pointer .. not that helpful :/

Now I thought, before installing the gem and I located it already with
the above grep command, I wanted to have more details. So since I cannot
pass a pattern to gem which matches anywhere in it's name, only from the
beginning, I thought I just fetch all of it.

Didn't realize there where sooooo many. I didn't knew all the links you
posted (especially gemcuttter.org and ruby-toolbox), for me it was just
the "gem" tool available and I thought I'd use it more or less like I
use e.g. aptitude/dpkg/apt-cache search and friends (where I seldom
visited the Debian project web page). It seems it doesn't maintain a
local package cache dir from the remote site(s?).

As it stands now, it's just a matter for me to realize what "gem" and
it's objective is and what it isn't. Guess that has been cleared up for
some points ;-)

thanks,
- Markus