Content preview: Hi, On 27.03.2011 13:50, Nick K. wrote: > I guess
we should
bring this conversation back around to the heart of the > matter:
what is
it that you want to accomplish by listing all 22,000+ gems > on your
local
machine? > > I mean, there are search engines devoted specifically
to listing
out gems > for you (http://www.gemcutter.org,
http://www.rubydoc.info/) and
giving you > some pertinent details about the gem itself (such as
where to
go for more > information). There are resources to help you find the
best
gem for the > task at hand (http://ruby-toolbox.com/), and plenty of
other
places to find > out about gems. […]
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Hi,
On 27.03.2011 13:50, Nick K. wrote:
I guess we should bring this conversation back around to the heart of the
matter: what is it that you want to accomplish by listing all 22,000+ gems
on your local machine?
I mean, there are search engines devoted specifically to listing out gems
for you (http://www.gemcutter.org, http://www.rubydoc.info/) and giving you
some pertinent details about the gem itself (such as where to go for more
information). There are resources to help you find the best gem for the
task at hand (http://ruby-toolbox.com/), and plenty of other places to find
out about gems.
indeed … I didn’t realize this, seriously. Whenever I used a ruby
software before, which required a certain gem, not every software
clearly says “use this or that gem”, I mostly used “gem list --remote| |
grep name” to figure the right one. I use this because the default
pattern you can pass to gem only checks for gems beginning with that
name … There are other such inconveniences, like “gem help” telling me
I need “gem help commands” to see all of them. I’d expect “gem help” or
“gem --help” telling my that. I there weren’t the examples, “gem help”
by itself would only be another help pointer … not that helpful 
Now I thought, before installing the gem and I located it already with
the above grep command, I wanted to have more details. So since I cannot
pass a pattern to gem which matches anywhere in it’s name, only from the
beginning, I thought I just fetch all of it.
Didn’t realize there where sooooo many. I didn’t knew all the links you
posted (especially gemcuttter.org and ruby-toolbox), for me it was just
the “gem” tool available and I thought I’d use it more or less like I
use e.g. aptitude/dpkg/apt-cache search and friends (where I seldom
visited the Debian project web page). It seems it doesn’t maintain a
local package cache dir from the remote site(s?).
As it stands now, it’s just a matter for me to realize what “gem” and
it’s objective is and what it isn’t. Guess that has been cleared up for
some points 
thanks,