Note! Some versions of RubyGems have a bug that will prevent
automatic updates. If RubyGems says it has nothing to update, run:
$ gem install rubygems-update
$ update_rubygems
= Announce: RubyGems Release 1.3.0
Release 1.3.0 adds new features and fixes some bugs.
New features:
- RubyGems doesn’t print LOCAL/REMOTE titles for
gem query
and
friends if
stdout is not a TTY, except with --both. - Added Gem.find_files, allows a gem to discover features provided by
other
gems. - Added pre/post (un)install hooks for packagers of RubyGems. (Not
for gems
themselves). - RubyGems now installs gems into ~/.gem if GEM_HOME is not writable.
Use
–no-user-install command-line switch to disable this behavior. - Fetching specs for update now uses If-Modified-Since requests.
- RubyGems now updates the ri cache when the rdoc gem is installed and
documentation is generated.
Deprecation Notices:
- Gem::manage_gems now warns when called. It will be removed on or
after March
2009.
Bugs Fixed:
- RubyGems 1.3.0+ now updates when no previous rubygems-update is
installed.
Bug #20775 by Hemant K… - RubyGems now uses the regexp we already have for
gem list -- installed
. Bug
#20876 by Nick H… - Platform is now forced to Gem::Platform::RUBY when nil or blank in the
indexer. Fixes various uninstallable gems. - Handle EINVAL on seek. Based on patch in bug #20791 by Neil W…
- Fix HTTPS support. Patch #21072 by Alex Arnell.
- RubyGems now loads all cache files even if latest has been loaded.
Bug
#20776 by Uwe K… - RubyGems checks for support of development dependencies for
#to_ruby. Bug
#20778 by Evan W… - Now specifications from the future can be loaded.
- Binary script uninstallation fixed. Bug #21234 by Neil W…
- Uninstallation with -i fixed. Bug #20812 by John C…
- Gem::Uninstaller#remove_all now calls Gem::Uninstaller#uninstall_gem
so hooks
get called. Bug #21242 by Neil W… - Gem.ruby now properly escaped on windows. Fixes problem with
extension
compilation. -
gem lock --strict
works again. Patch #21814 by Sven Engelhardt. - Platform detection for Solaris was improved. Patch #21911 by Bob
Remeika.
Other Changes Include:
-
gem help install
now describes version argument to executable
stubs -
gem help environment
describes environment variables and ~/.gemrc
and
/etc/gemrc - On-disk gemspecs are now read in UTF-8 and written with a UTF-8
magic comment - Rakefile
- If the SETUP_OPTIONS environment variable is set, pass its
contents as
arguments to setup.rb
- If the SETUP_OPTIONS environment variable is set, pass its
- lib/rubygems/platform.rb
- Remove deprecated constant warnings and really deprecate them.
(WIN32,
etc).
- Remove deprecated constant warnings and really deprecate them.
- lib/rubygems/remote_fetcher.rb
- Now uses ~/.gem/cache if the cache dir in GEM_HOME is not writable.
- lib/rubygems/source_index.rb
- Deprecate options to ‘search’ other than Gem::Dependency
instances and
issue warning until November 2008.
- Deprecate options to ‘search’ other than Gem::Dependency
- setup.rb
- –destdir folder structure now built using Pathname, so it works
for
Windows platforms.
- –destdir folder structure now built using Pathname, so it works
- test/*
- Fixes to run tests when under test/rubygems/. Patch by Yusuke
ENDOH
[ruby-core:17353].
- Fixes to run tests when under test/rubygems/. Patch by Yusuke
- test/test_ext_configure_builder.rb
- Locale-free patch by Yusuke E. [ruby-core:17444].
For a full list of changes to RubyGems and the contributor for each
change, see
the ChangeLog file.
Special thanks to Chad Wooley for backwards compatibility testing and
Luis
Lavena for continuing windows support.
== How can I get RubyGems?
NOTE: If you have installed RubyGems using a package system you may
want to
install a new RubyGems through the same packaging system.
If you have a recent version of RubyGems (0.8.5 or later), then all
you need to do is:
$ gem update --system (you might need to be admin/root)
NOTE: RubyGems 1.1 and 1.2 have problems upgrading when there is no
rubygems-update installed. You will need to follow the second set of
update
instructions if you see “Nothing to update”.
NOTE: You may have to run the command twice if you have any previosly
installed rubygems-update gems.
If you have an older version of RubyGems installed, then you can still
do it in two steps:
$ gem install rubygems-update (again, might need to be admin/root)
$ update_rubygems (… here too)
If you don’t have any gems install, there is still the pre-gem
approach to getting software … doing it manually:
- DOWNLOAD FROM: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126
- UNPACK INTO A DIRECTORY AND CD THERE
- INSTALL WITH: ruby setup.rb (you may need admin/root privilege)
== To File Bugs
The RubyGems bug tracker can be found on RubyForge at:
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=add&group_id=126&atid=575
When filing a bug, gem env
output will be helpful in diagnosing the
issue.
If you find a bug where RubyGems crashes, please provide debug output.
You can
do that with gem --debug the_command
.
== Thanks
Keep those gems coming!
– Jim & Chad & Eric (for the RubyGems team)