From: Ryan Davis Date: 2011-05-11T16:43:15+09:00 Subject: Re: How to get index&summary of remote gem library On May 10, 2011, at 18:15 , John wrote: > Is there a command or a file which can be downloaded which contains a > index&summary of the Remote GEM library? > > A local file copy of the index&summary of the remote GEM library would > allow me to perform keyword searches of > the summary line when I am looking for a specific gem or source code. > The command "gem list -rd" never generates > any output or completes. Not strictly true... It's just doing a _lot_. 2169 % gem list -rdV *** REMOTE GEMS *** GET http://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz 302 Found GET http://production.s3.rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz 200 OK GET http://rubygems.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/--1.gemspec.rz 302 Found GET http://production.cf.rubygems.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/--1.gemspec.rz 200 OK GET http://rubygems.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/10io-jekyll-0.10.0.gemspec.rz 302 Found GET http://production.cf.rubygems.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/10io-jekyll-0.10.0.gemspec.rz 200 OK GET http://rubygems.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/1234567890_-1.0.gemspec.rz 302 Found GET http://production.cf.rubygems.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/1234567890_-1.0.gemspec.rz 200 OK GET http://rubygems.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/12_hour_time-0.0.3.gemspec.rz 302 Found GET http://production.cf.rubygems.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/12_hour_time-0.0.3.gemspec.rz 200 OK > I am looking for a report with the following fields: gem_name, > gem_version, gem_summary name and version are really easy. They're available locally via that first file latest_specs.4.8.gz. Summary unfortunately requires all those other gemspecs to download. Back in the day we had an index that could help you, but I don't think it is being created anymore.