Thanks, Justin.  I will check these links out!

Ken


On Jan 27, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Justin James Grevich wrote:

Hi Ken,

Here are some links that should answer your questions:

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/2_2_release_notes.html#configgems
http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/4/1/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-gem-dependencies

Let me know if you come across any better references.


justin

On Jan 27, 10:39 am, Ken Hudson <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi Everyone,

For most of my time working with Rails I have installed gems using a
command like this from the command line:

sudo gem install blahblah

and this has worked great.

Now I am seeing more and more install instructions for gems that call
for adding a line like

config.gem 'blahblah'

to your config/environment.rb file and then entering the following:

rake gems:install

Why the difference?  What are the advantages to the second approach?
If you have have multiple lines in config/environment.rb file like:

config.gem 'abcdef'
config.gem 'xyzzzz'

and then run "rake gems:install" will existing gems be reinstalled or
updated?  If yes, how do you prevent this from happening?

I suppose these questions might fall into the "dumb" category but I
don't know the answers and I'd like to learn more about how this works.

Thanks, Ken

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