RubyGems feature request

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RubyGems is neato. Thanks to the team for such a wonderful Ruby tool.

Here's my feature request: I want to be able to clean up old versions of RubyGems. Specifically, I want to be able to delete all old versions (all but the most highest version on my machine) of all gems, or all old versions of a specific gem. I know I can use

  gem uninstall --version '< 3.0.0' RedCloth

but that assumes that I go to the gems directory, see which versions of RedCloth are installed, and type the highest version number. I'm thinking of something like

  gem cleanup

or

  gem uninstall --all-but-latest

Thanks for listening.

Jim

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Jim Menard said:

something like

  gem cleanup

or

  gem uninstall --all-but-latest

Yep, its on our list too! Thanks for the feedback.

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I second that! I really don't need four different versions of
activerecord, actionpack, actionmailer, and rails. Just the latest one
would do me fine :slight_smile: And save space on my webserver.

cheers,
Mark

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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 04:17:40 +0900, Jim Menard <jimm@io.com> wrote:

something like

        gem cleanup

or

        gem uninstall --all-but-latest