[OSM-dev] ruby gems 1.2 (was Re: setting up the api )

[Shaun McDonald]

Tom Hughes wrote:
> Shaun McDonald wrote:
>
>> It works here on Ubuntu using rubygems 1.1.1, which was released in 
>> April.
>> How difficult is it to update rubygems? It be easier to state that 
>> you need to have a recent version of rubygems, rather than having a 
>> long list of commands to install specific versions of gems.
>>  From the documentation I've found online, using rubygems 0.9.4 or 
>> 0.9.2 does not work.
>
> Fedora 9 has 0.9.4 at the moment. You can do "gem update --system" to 
> install directly but I've found it tends to break things if you do 
> that over a system installed copy so I try to avoid it.
>

Looks like it has been upgraded to 1.2 about a fortnight after your mail:
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc//rpms/rubygems/F-9/rubygems.spec?view=markup

Personally I'm tempted to raise the requirements to ruby gems 1.2 for 
api 0.6 and beyond.

Shaun