Asp Forum - ANN: RubyGems 0.9.3 Released

Jim Weirich

5/11/2007 12:35:00 PM

= Announce: RubyGems Release 0.9.3

Release 0.9.3 is a maintenance release of RubyGems that fixes a problem
with ZLib on Windows playforms.

If you are experiencing "Buffer Error" problems with RubyGems, we
recommend upgrading to RubyGems 0.9.3.

Bug Fixes Include:

The ZLib library on Windows will occasionally complains about a buffer
error when unpacking gems. The Gems software has a workaround for
that problem, but the workaround was only enabled for versions of ZLib
1.2.1 or earlier. We have received several reports of the error
occuring with ZLib 1.2.3, so we have permanently enabled the work
around on all versions.

== What is RubyGems?

RubyGems is a package management system for Ruby applications and
libraries. RubyGems one command download makes installing Ruby
software fun and enjoyable again. (Ok, not really.)

Many gems are available for download from the RubyForge site. Browse
the list of gems with a "gem list --remote" command and download what
you need with a simple "gem install <name-of-gem>". RubyGems takes
care of the details of installing, not only the gem you requested, but
also any gems needed by the software you selected.

== How can I get RubyGems?

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: 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:

1. DOWNLOAD FROM: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?gr...
2. UNPACK INTO A DIRECTORY AND CD THERE
3. INSTALL WITH: ruby setup.rb all (you may need admin/root privilege)

== What's Next

The next big thing on the plate is to integrate the local/remote gem
logic and make the whole thing more consistent.

== Thanks

Major contributors to this release include:

* Jamis Buck (for discovering the ZLib problem).

Keep those gems coming!

-- Jim & Chad (for the RubyGems team)

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8 Answers

Aaron Kulbe

5/11/2007 5:57:00 PM

On 5/11/07, Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> wrote:
> = Announce: RubyGems Release 0.9.3
>
> Release 0.9.3 is a maintenance release of RubyGems that fixes a problem
> with ZLib on Windows playforms.
>
> If you are experiencing "Buffer Error" problems with RubyGems, we
> recommend upgrading to RubyGems 0.9.3.
>
> Bug Fixes Include:
>
> The ZLib library on Windows will occasionally complains about a buffer
> error when unpacking gems. The Gems software has a workaround for
> that problem, but the workaround was only enabled for versions of ZLib
> 1.2.1 or earlier. We have received several reports of the error
> occuring with ZLib 1.2.3, so we have permanently enabled the work
> around on all versions.
>
> == What is RubyGems?
>
> RubyGems is a package management system for Ruby applications and
> libraries. RubyGems one command download makes installing Ruby
> software fun and enjoyable again. (Ok, not really.)
>
> Many gems are available for download from the RubyForge site. Browse
> the list of gems with a "gem list --remote" command and download what
> you need with a simple "gem install <name-of-gem>". RubyGems takes
> care of the details of installing, not only the gem you requested, but
> also any gems needed by the software you selected.
>
> == How can I get RubyGems?
>
> 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: 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:
>
> 1. DOWNLOAD FROM: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?gr...
> 2. UNPACK INTO A DIRECTORY AND CD THERE
> 3. INSTALL WITH: ruby setup.rb all (you may need admin/root privilege)
>
> == What's Next
>
> The next big thing on the plate is to integrate the local/remote gem
> logic and make the whole thing more consistent.
>
> == Thanks
>
> Major contributors to this release include:
>
> * Jamis Buck (for discovering the ZLib problem).
>
> Keep those gems coming!
>
> -- Jim & Chad (for the RubyGems team)
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-....
>
>

Has the "clean" option, which would remove all the outdated versions,
been removed with 0.9.3?

It doesn't show up in 'gem help commands'

If this is, in fact, the case - and it has been removed.... how does
one perform the same action of removing all the outdated gems from the
tree?

Ezra Zygmuntowicz

5/11/2007 5:57:00 PM

On May 11, 2007, at 5:34 AM, Jim Weirich wrote:

> = Announce: RubyGems Release 0.9.3
>
> Release 0.9.3 is a maintenance release of RubyGems that fixes a
> problem
> with ZLib on Windows playforms.
>
> If you are experiencing "Buffer Error" problems with RubyGems, we
> recommend upgrading to RubyGems 0.9.3.
>
>

I'm not sure if it was intentional or not. But this release of
rubygems does not have the 'cleanup' command anymore. What should we
use instead of cleanup?

ey00-s00289 ~ # gem --version
0.9.3
ey00-s00289 ~ # gem cleanup mongrel_cluster
ERROR: While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
Unknown command cleanup

This worked fine with rubygems 0.9.2 and prior. I will file a ticket
in the tracker as well.

Thanks
-- Ezra Zygmuntowicz
-- Lead Rails Evangelist
-- ez@engineyard.com
-- Engine Yard, Serious Rails Hosting
-- (866) 518-YARD (9273)

Luc Heinrich

5/12/2007 11:51:00 AM

On 11 mai 07, at 19:57, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:

> I'm not sure if it was intentional or not. But this release of
> rubygems does not have the 'cleanup' command anymore.

I'm pretty sure it was not intentional. Having a look at the diff
between r1220 and r1222 I would say that it was just an involuntary
omission:

<http://viewvc.rubyforge.mmmultiworks.com/cgi/viewvc.cgi/...
rubygems/command_manager.rb?root=rubygems&r1=1220&r2=1222>

And by the way, there are already 4 duplicates of this bug in the
rubygems tracker (eh, I added the third one before realising there
were already two of them ;)) so no need to add more...

--
Luc Heinrich

Jim Weirich

5/14/2007 3:13:00 PM

Luc Heinrich wrote:
> I'm pretty sure it was not intentional. Having a look at the diff
> between r1220 and r1222 I would say that it was just an involuntary
> omission:

Yep. It was unintentional. We will get a fix in soon and make a new
release probably after RailsConf.

-- Jim

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Charles L.

5/15/2007 1:06:00 AM

Jim Weirich wrote:
> Luc Heinrich wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure it was not intentional. Having a look at the diff
>> between r1220 and r1222 I would say that it was just an involuntary
>> omission:
>
> Yep. It was unintentional. We will get a fix in soon and make a new
> release probably after RailsConf.
>
> -- Jim

I've updated to the new version, but I still get buffer errors at times.

Seems to be mostly due to windows file modes not being binary by
default. For example, index_gem_repository.rb fails to write "yaml.Z" on
windows, and also fails to read it in for #paranoid (File.read is no
good for binary files either).

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stu

5/16/2007 11:54:00 AM

On May 11, 8:34 am, Jim Weirich <j...@weirichhouse.org> wrote:
> = Announce: RubyGems Release 0.9.3
>

now I get this doing an update;

Updating installed gems...
Attempting remote update of rake
ERROR: While executing gem ... (ArgumentError)
install directory #<Pathname:c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/
rake-0.7.3> not absolute

filed a bug on the tracker. none of my gems will now update.

-stu

Sglez Fms

9/19/2007 6:22:00 PM

I have the same error:

Successfully built RubyGem
Name: sources
Version: 0.0.1
File: sources-0.0.1.gem
Removing old RubyGems RDoc and ri...
Installing rubygems-0.9.4 ri...
Installing rubygems-0.9.4 rdoc...

As of RubyGems 0.8.0, library stubs are no longer needed.
Searching $LOAD_PATH for stubs to optionally delete (may take a
while)...
...done.
No library stubs found.

I'm using RubyGems 0.9.4 on MacOsX with ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13
patchlevel 0) [powerpc-darwin8.10.0]

Error example:
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:304:in
`report_activate_error': Could not find RubyGem nanoc (> 0)
(Gem::LoadError)

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Eric Hodel

9/20/2007 3:01:00 AM

On Sep 19, 2007, at 11:21, Sglez Fms wrote:

> I have the same error:
>
> Successfully built RubyGem
> Name: sources
> Version: 0.0.1
> File: sources-0.0.1.gem
> Removing old RubyGems RDoc and ri...
> Installing rubygems-0.9.4 ri...
> Installing rubygems-0.9.4 rdoc...
>
> As of RubyGems 0.8.0, library stubs are no longer needed.
> Searching $LOAD_PATH for stubs to optionally delete (may take a
> while)...
> ...done.
> No library stubs found.

I don't see any errors here.

> I'm using RubyGems 0.9.4 on MacOsX with ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13
> patchlevel 0) [powerpc-darwin8.10.0]
>
>
> Error example:
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:304:in
> `report_activate_error': Could not find RubyGem nanoc (> 0)
> (Gem::LoadError)

Do you have the gem installed? (gem list will say so)

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ANN: RubyGems 0.9.3 Released

Jim Weirich

Aaron Kulbe

Ezra Zygmuntowicz

Luc Heinrich

Jim Weirich

Charles L.

stu

Sglez Fms

Eric Hodel

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