Category: rubygems

We need a new version of rake

Posted by Aaron Patterson – February 26, 2009

We’ve all seen this warning:
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake/gempackagetask.rb:13:Warning: Gem::manage_gems is deprecated and will be removed on or after March 2009.[/sourcecode]
Rake is using a deprecated API from RubyGems. Jim knows about the problem, we just need to get him to release a new version of Rake.

In order to get Jim to release a new version of Rake, I have decided to start a letter writing campaign:

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If you would like to help get a new version of Rake released, I encourage you to send a letter to Jim, thanking him for his hard work on Rake, and asking him kindly to release the new "warning free" version.

Send your letters here:

Rake
c/o Jim Weirich
EdgeCase
1130 Congress Ave
Cincinnati, OH 45246

Together we can get Jim to release a new version of Rake. Together we can build a "warning free" future for our children.

Faster RubyGems (GEMS 早くになりました)

Posted by Aaron Patterson – February 20, 2008

Last night at Nerd Club, Eric and I hacked a patch of mine in to RubyGems. We made gems use net/http rather than open-uri for downloading gem information. I configured net/http to use a persistent connection, and now those little dots should move a lot faster in the next release of RubyGems. Eric was also able to pull open-uri out of gems. Yay!

I hope that gets released soon. Those slow dots irritate me so much!