From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2011-07-04T05:24:23+09:00
Subject: Re: downloading all of gem to my hd?

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On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Y. NOBUOKA <nobuoka@r-definition.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I found "gem mirror" command in a old version of gem, but
> a current version of gem doesn't have such a command.
>
> Now, I think that the one way to download all gem files is to do
> following steps:
>
> 1. obtain all gem names with "gem search" command
> $ gem search --remote
> 2. download all gem files with "gem fetch" command
> $ gem fetch [gemname] [gemname] [gemname] ...
> ([gemname] is one of the gem names obtained in step 1)
>
> Although this way is troublesome if you do by your hand,
> you can write a simple script which do these steps automatically.
>
>

This worked for me:

$ cd some/dir/to/store/gems/in
$ gem update --system && gem search --no-installed --no-details
--no-versions --remote | awk 'NR<10' | xargs gem fetch --bulk-threshold 2
Latest version currently installed. Aborting.
Fetching: 10io-jekyll-0.10.0.gem (100%)
Downloaded 10io-jekyll-0.10.0
Fetching: 1234567890_-1.0.gem (100%)
Downloaded 1234567890_-1.0
Fetching: 12_hour_time-0.0.3.gem (100%)
Downloaded 12_hour_time-0.0.3
Fetching: 24games-0.2.1.gem (100%)
Downloaded 24games-0.2.1
Fetching: 2Performant-0.0.8.gem (100%)
Downloaded 2Performant-0.0.8
Fetching: 360_services-1.1.3.gem (100%)
Downloaded 360_services-1.1.3
Fetching: 3d-ribbon-0.1.1.gem (100%)
Downloaded 3d-ribbon-0.1.1
Fetching: 3scale_client-2.2.7.gem (100%)
Downloaded 3scale_client-2.2.7


If you want all of them, just don't pipe it through awk. I think Jan is on
the right path with fetching the gems (as opposed to installing them, which
could have security consequences, and probably lead to hard to track bugs
from some gem authors not understanding the conventions). Then, when you
want one of the gems, you can cd into that dir and `$ gem install
gemname-version.gem`

Of course, this doesn't fetch every version of every gem, just the most
recent.

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