Makes sense to me, I've been doing this all the time to speed things up. It depends though how you intend to use it, as in development/debugging, or just production-run-as-fast-as-you-can type mode ...
How much memory you have also seems to affect how long it takes to update. On a 'slow' system profile memory to see if you are hitting any bottlenecks. I've noticed this on VMs with limited ram. Cheers Tim On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Željko Filipin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Željko Filipin > <[email protected]> wrote: >> "gem update --system --no-rdoc --no-ri" took a long time too, but probably >> only 1/3 or 1/2 of full install, I did not measure. > > I have added this text to http://watir.com/installation/: > > Tip: While updating RubyGems, you can use gem update --system --no-rdoc > --no-ri instead of gem update --system. It will be much faster, but you will > not install RDoc and ri. > > Please let me know if you think it should be changed or removed. > > Željko > > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-development mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development > _______________________________________________ Wtr-development mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development
