Homepage:: http://rubygems.org
Announcements:: http://blog.rubygems.org
Documentation:: http://guides.rubygems.org
Support:: http://help.rubygems.org
Source:: http://github.com/rubygems/rubygems
Bugtracker:: http://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues
RubyGems is a package management framework for Ruby.
This gem is an update for the RubyGems software. You must have an
installation of RubyGems before this update can be applied.
See Gem for information on RubyGems (or `ri Gem`)
To upgrade to the latest RubyGems, run:
$ gem update --system # you might need to be an administrator or root
See UPGRADING.rdoc for more details and alternative instructions.
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If you don't have RubyGems installed, you can still do it manually:
* Download from: https://rubygems.org/pages/download
* Unpack into a directory and cd there
* Install with: ruby setup.rb # you may need admin/root privilege
For more details and other options, see:
ruby setup.rb --help
Changes:
* Bug fixes:
* HTTPS URLs are preferred over HTTP URLs. RubyGems will now attempt to
upgrade any HTTP source to HTTPS. Credit to Alex Gaynor.
* Lazily load RubyGems.org API credentials to avoid failure during
RubyGems installation. Bug #465 by Isaac Sanders.
* RubyGems now picks the latest prerelease to install. Fixes bug #468 by
Santiago Pastorino.
* Improved detection of missing Zlib::GzipReader encoding support. Works
around JRuby-only bug #472 by Matt Beedle.
* "Done installing documentation" is no longer displayed when documentation
generation is disabled. Fixes bug #469 by Jeff Sandberg
* The existing executable check now respects --format-executable. Pull
request #471 by Jeremy Evans.
* RubyGems no longer creates gem subdirectories when fetching gems. Fixes
#482 by Loren Segal.
* RubyGems does not require OpenSSL like RubyGems 1.8, but still prefers it.
Fixes #481 by André Arko.
* RubyGems only fetches specs for list, search and query commands when
needed like RubyGems 1.x. Fixes bug #487 by bitbuerster, Ruby bug #8019
by Ike Miller.
* Allow specification of mode for gem subdirectory creation.
Ruby bug #7713 by nobu
* Fix tests when an 'a.rb' exists. Ruby bug #7749 by nobu.