I actually do that as well for all of our gems, currently everything is
checked into svn, and the docs and ri info are never used locally. It takes
up too much space and haven't seen the need for it.

-Charley

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Tim Koopmans <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> >
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