speeding up "gem1.9 install" during development

[R.. Kumar 1.9.1 OSX]

During development, I keep running rake install. The following command
often takes a minute to execute, although the gem is created in a
second.

gem1.9 install ../pkg/xxxx.gem

Running --trace doesn't help at all since no details come after the
above line.

Is there any way this can be speeded up. Do others use some other
alternative?
Should I be testing and using my app from the development directory
itself as:

ruby lib/x.rb instead of from the PATH. (Its a CLI program so it
installs in my path as well).

Does the number of dependencies slow down "gem install" ?

 

[Luis Lavena]

During development, I keep running rake install. The following command
often takes a minute to execute, although the gem is created in a
second.

gem1.9 install ../pkg/xxxx.gem

Running --trace doesn't help at all since no details come after the
above line.

Is there any way this can be speeded up. Do others use some other
alternative?

"rake install", depending on the gem project you're working on (which
you don't specify) might be running test or any other task prior the
gem building and installation.

Check the tasks dependencies of "rake install" using "rake -P" and see
on which other tasks it depends.

Should I be testing and using my app from the development directory
itself as:

ruby lib/x.rb instead of from the PATH. (Its a CLI program so it
installs in my path as well).

Run your tests, or do with ruby -Ilib bin/xxx

Does the number of dependencies slow down "gem install" ?

Depending on how "rake install" works, it should be running with gem
install --local, to avoid hitting the remote source index.

 

[R.. Kumar 1.9.1 OSX]

"rake install", depending on the gem project you're working on (which

Depending on how "rake install" works, it should be running with gem
install --local, to avoid hitting the remote source index.

rake install - runs gem1.9 install and that's where the time goes (when
I ran --trace)

Thus, my question is to do with speeding up "gem1.9 install" and not
"rake install"

thx.

 

[Luis Lavena]

rake install - runs gem1.9 install and that's where the time goes (when
I ran --trace)

Thus, my question is to do with speeding up "gem1.9 install" and not
"rake install"

gem1.9 install --local path/to/my.gem

As I mentioned before, that will not hit the remote source index.

 

[Brian Candler]

During development, I keep running rake install. The following command
often takes a minute to execute, although the gem is created in a
second.

gem1.9 install ../pkg/xxxx.gem

Try with --no-ri --no-rdoc

 

[R.. Kumar 1.9.1 OSX]

Try with --no-ri --no-rdoc

gem1.9 install --no-ri --no-rdoc ./pkg/....

putting this in my command, seems to have not much impact.
I actually have this in my .gemrc file already.

I tried a gem install --local and it was instantaneous.

How can i get "rake install" to do a --local.
I obviously don't want this to be global or i wont be able to install
external gems.

thx.

 

[R.. Kumar 1.9.1 OSX]

gem1.9 install --no-ri --no-rdoc ./pkg/....

putting this in my command, seems to have not much impact.
I actually have this in my .gemrc file already.

I tried a gem install --local and it was instantaneous.

How can i get "rake install" to do a --local.
I obviously don't want this to be global or i wont be able to install
external gems.

Currently, since my Rakefile is generated by Jeweler, i found that it
calls gem install. I've hardcoded a "--local" in the jeweler Command.
Don;t know how else I could pass the value from rake. I think it only
affects rake install and not gem install, so its okay.