On 4/11/06, Chris Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Caleb, > > It would be great to have you document what you do to update these > packages. I am still somewhat unfamiliar with how to update a gem or > even verify that it is the latest version.
To list what is currently installed, gem list Also, the following is helpful since gem by default does not remove old versions of software. gem cleanup So if you run, gem_server and go to http://localhost:8808/ and see multiple versions of any packages installed, and you only need the most recent, then 'gem cleanup' is your friend. > But if you are asking > people to come updated, it would be good to have a summary of the > baseline for that. I know how to apt-get, but ruby usually operates > outside that package manager, so I'd love to have this process > documented somewhere, Yes, I highly recommend using gem for ruby related packages. Having used debian, freebsd, and osx for ruby development I can say it is well worth the trouble of learning gem. It is a rather strange change to think of a language as having a it's own package system instead of using what is provided by the underlying unix distribution. And on that note I recommend compiling ruby from source and installing in /usr/local/ You will be much happier. > Alas, I cannot make it tonight regardless. But, very soon I hope to > attend. :) _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
