From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2011-05-08T15:34:32+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] rubygems-update 1.8.1 Released

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Patrick Johnson
<patrick.johnson3@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm completely new to this stuff.  When should "gem update" alone ever be
> run?  Or does doing so break things?

"gem update [gem]" updates a gem. If no argument is given, it updates all gems.

What, if anything, breaks depends on the gems you have installed.

-- 
Phillip Gawlowski

Though the folk I have met,
(Ah, how soon!) they forget
When I've moved on to some other place,
There may be one or two,
When I've played and passed through,
Who'll remember my song or my face.