migrating my ruby gems

[Dave Rose]

...i would like to upgrade to 1.8.5.1...but my large gem collection are
preventing...i have so many gems stored into my 1.8.2. Windows directory
structure ...is there a quick way to do this????

 

[Jan Svitok]

...i would like to upgrade to 1.8.5.1...but my large gem collection are
preventing...i have so many gems stored into my 1.8.2. Windows directory
structure ...is there a quick way to do this????

I do:

rename c:\ruby to c:\ruby-182
install 1.8.5 into c:\ruby

then go to C:\ruby-182\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\cache and do
gem install *.gem

I suppose there will be problems with dependencies (order of
installation), so if anything fails, I install the gems individually.

Then I'd do global update and remove older no more needed gems.

 

[David Vallner]

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Back up the 1.8.2 folder, copying over the lib/ruby/gems directory from
the backup to the fresh 1.8.5 install, gem update, gem clean. If
rubygems is at least halfways worth its salt as a package manager (which
I hope it does), it should recuperate from that. Futzing with them
manually hopefully won't be required.

David Vallner


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