I found this little nugget of info from Ryan Daigle's blog. This looks like what you are talking about right David?
http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/4/1/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-gem-dependencies --Cory On Oct 8, 8:08 pm, DavidPaquet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are using a recent version of (Rails 2.0+ I think) you can use > the config.gem directive in environnment.rb like this : > > config.gem "hpricot", :version => '0.6', :source => "http:// > code.whytheluckystiff.net" > > After that, you can do a rake gems:install on new installations. > > On Oct 8, 1:24 pm, CPerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am curious to know what the best way (or most ideal way) is to > > handle keeping gems/plugins updated for a Rails app that gets updated > > quite frequently. > > > I am currently building an app that will be using like 8 plugins, > > along with 9-10 gem packages. I would like to keep these updated as > > well as possible while making it easy on myself to do so. Also, I want > > to be sure that when deployment time comes, I make that process as > > easy as possible as well. > > > For the plugin side of things, I have been checking out the new > > "git_plugins" plugin and it looks > > promising.http://www.railslodge.com/plugins/1208-git-plugins > > > For those of you using a lot of gems/plugins, how do you keep them > > maintained and up to date easily? > > > --Cory --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

