From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-07-05T18:55:06+09:00
Subject: Re: downloading all of gem to my hd?

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

What about

$ gem19 help mirror

?

Cheers

robert

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