Please don't top post.
On Jun 3, 2008, at 20:34 PM, Bret Pettichord wrote:
I confirmed that your suggestion works as you describe. Thanks.
However, what i want to do is make "gem install watir" work as a
one-step install. With your suggestion it is now a 2-step install.
("gem update --system; gem install watir")
A quick analysis of the gem repository access log shows only 20% of
the hits from RubyGems having a version of 0.9.4 or older. For most
of your users there is likely no need to update RubyGems.
I was hoping that i could just add a dependency on rubygems-update to
the watir gem, but this in itself is not sufficient to fix the
dependency problem -- i need the full gem update --system.
I believe you need at least RubyGems 0.9.5 to depend on a particular
version of RubyGems, but this will not force an update of RubyGems
itself.
Do you or others know if there is a way to add a dependency on this
("gem update --system') as part of the gem install for Watir (by
changing its gemspec)?
There is not. User interaction is required to update RubyGems, as a
packaged RubyGems may have incompatible changes with standard RubyGems.
Another option would be for us to move to Ruby 1.8.7. which surely has
other benefits as well.
Upgrading to Ruby 1.8.7 will not change the RubyGems version you are
using.
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