# Gem update --system

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-system/132214>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 17, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-system/132214 "2008-03-17T23:11:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joel\_VanderWerf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Joel\_VanderWerf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Joel_VanderWerf)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-system/132214/1 "2008-03-17T23:11:49Z")

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This is odd… whenever I execute “gem update --system”, the update and  
install seems to happen, but the version stays at 1.0.1. Shouldn’t gem  
check if the installed version is current?

$ gem -v  
1.0.1  
$ ruby -v  
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i686-linux]

Not a big problem, just a waste of time and bandwidth if this is being  
done by an automated script.