NOTE: If you recently installed RubyGems from trunk, the --source option may be broken. You can fetch the beta manually here:
http://segment7.net/gems/rubygems-update-0.9.4.5.gem Then run: gem install rubygems-update-0.9.4.5.gem update_rubygems RubyGems 0.9.4.5 is a beta release for the upcoming 0.9.5 which adds several new features and fixes several bugs. To upgrade to the beta: gem update --system --source http://segment7.net/ To file bugs: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=add&group_id=126&atid=575 When filing a bug, `gem env` output will be helpful in diagnosing the issue. If you find a bug where RubyGems crashes, please provide debug output. You can do that with `gem --debug the_command`. For example: $ gem --debug unknown_command Exception `RuntimeError' at [...]/rubygems/command_manager.rb:114 - Unknown command unknown_command ERROR: While executing gem ... (RuntimeError) Unknown command unknown_command [...]/rubygems/command_manager.rb:114:in `find_command' [...]/rubygems/command_manager.rb:103:in `process_args' [...]/rubygems/command_manager.rb:74:in `run' [...]/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:39:in `run' /usr/local/bin/gem:22 == Changes Select new features include: * Automatic installation of platform gems * New bandwidth and memory friendlier index file format * "Offline" mode (--no-update-sources) * Bulk update threshold can be specified (-B, --bulk-threshold) * New `gem fetch` command * `gem` now has "really verbose" output when you specify -v * Ruby 1.9 compatible Other changes include: * Time::today is deprecated and will be removed at a future date * `gem install --include-dependencies` (-y) is now deprecated since it is the default, use --ignore-dependencies to turn off automatic dependency installation * Multi-version diamond dependencies only are installed once * Processing a YAML bulk index update takes less memory * `gem install -i` makes sure all depenencies are installed * `gem update --system` reinstalls into the prefix it was originally installed in * `gem update --system` respects --no-rdoc and --no-ri flags * HTTP basic authentication support for proxies * Gem::Specification#platforms should no longer be a String, use Gem::Platform::CURRENT when building binary gems instead * `gem env` has more diagnostic information * require 'rubygems' loads less code * sources.gem is gone, RubyGems now uses built-in defaults * `gem install --source` will no longer add --source by default, use `gem sources --add` to make it a permanent extra source * `gem query` (list) no longer prints details by default * Exact gem names are matched in various places * mkrf extensions are now supported * A gem can depend on a specific RubyGems version * `gem_server` is now `gem server` * `gemlock` is now `gem lock` * `gem_mirror` is now `gem mirror` * `gemwhich` is now `gem which` * `gemri` is no longer included with RubyGems * `index_gem_repository.rb` is now `gem generate_index` * `gem` performs more validation of parameters * Custom rdoc styles are now supported * Gem indexer no longer removes quick index during index creation * Kernel#require only rescues a LoadError for the file being required now * `gem dependencies` can now display some information for remote gems Notes and issues: * Old gem scripts (gem_mirror, gem_server, gemlock, gemri, gemwhich, index_gem_repository.rb) are not cleaned up * There still appears to be a bug related to bulk updates of YAML indexes == Special Thanks * Daniel Berger for win32 testing of early betas * Luis Lavena for help with win32 platforms * Tom Copeland for help testing and releasing the new indexer * Wilson Bilkovich for the new index format * To the rest of the RubyGems bug reporters and patch contributors The full set of changes including contributors is included in the ChangeLog. == Platforms RubyGems now automatically handles platform gems. This means that `gem install` will no longer prompt for gem selection. RubyGems uses Ruby's built-in configuration to match the running ruby's platform to choose the correct gem to install. The automatically chosen platform may be overridden with the --platform option. The dependency, fetch, install, outdated, specification, uninstall and update commands all respond to --platform. For more information, see `gem help platforms` == Thanks Keep those gems coming! -- Jim & Chad & Eric (for the RubyGems team) _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
