Rubygem 1.0

It appears that Rubygem is now 1.0. It’s just released, so go out and try it for yourself. I’ll try to find out exactly what has changed.

Update:

Release 1.0.0 fixes several bugs.

Major New Features Include:

* RubyGems warns about various problems with gemspecs during gem
building
* More-consistent versioning for the RubyGems software

Other Changes Include:

* Fixed various bugs and problems with installing gems on Windows
* Fixed using `gem server` for installing gems
* Various operations are even more verbose with –verbose
* Built gems are now backwards compatible with 0.9.4
* Improved detection of RUBYOPT loading rubygems
* `ruby setup.rb` now has a –help option
* Gem::Specification#bindir is now respected on installation
* Executable stubs can now be installed to match ruby’s name, so if
ruby is
installed as ‘ruby18′, foo_exec will be installed as ‘foo_exec18′
* `gem unpack` can now unpack into a specific directory with –target
* OpenSSL is no longer required by default

Deprecations and Deletions:

* Kernel#require_gem has been removed
* Executables without a shebang will not be wrapped in a future
version, this
may cause such executables to fail to operate on installation
* Gem::Platform constants other than RUBY and CURRENT have been removed
* Gem::RemoteInstaller was removed
* Gem::Specification#test_suite_file and #test_suite_file= are
deprecated in
favor of #test_file and #test_file=
* Gem::Specification#autorequire= has been deprecated
* Time::today will be removed in a future version

December 20, 2007 | Filed Under News

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