# GemInstaller 0.5.3 Released

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 26, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/geminstaller-0-5-3-released/174429 "2009-08-26T18:10:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/geminstaller-0-5-3-released/174429/1 "2009-08-26T18:10:51Z")

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GemInstaller 0.5.3 has been released!

GemInstaller  
by Chad W.  
[http://geminstaller.rubyforge.org](http://geminstaller.rubyforge.org)

== CHANGES

- 0.5.3 / 2009-08-25
- Many long overdue bugfixes and patches, see  
[Tickets - GemInstaller - thewoolleyweb](http://tinyurl.com/geminstaller-0-5-3-release) for details.
- Thanks to Greg Fitzgerald, Britt Crawford, John T., Gabriel  
Gironda, and Eric H. for patches and assistance.
- Issues with case statement under Ruby 1.9
- GemInstaller cannot distinguish between gems that have the ame name  
but capitalized differently.
- add ./ci as default location for config file
- Disable GemInstaller install in default rails preinitializer.rb, but  
fork if it is used
- autogem() fails when run for newly-installed gem
- Sometimes installing fails due to RubyGems cache not being cleared  
between multiple API calls

== DESCRIPTION:

Automated Gem installation, activation, and much more!

== FEATURES:

GemInstaller provides automated installation, loading and activation  
of RubyGems. It uses a simple YAML config file to:

- Automatically install the correct versions of all required gems  
wherever your app runs.
- Automatically ensure installed gems and versions are consistent  
across multiple applications, machines, platforms, and environments
- Automatically activate correct versions of gems on the ruby load  
path when your app runs (‘require\_gem’/‘gem’)
- Automatically reinstall missing dependency gems (built in to RubyGems

> 1.0)

- Automatically detect correct platform to install for multi-platform  
gems (built in to RubyGems \> 1.0)
- Print YAML for “rogue gems” which are not specified in the current  
config, to easily bootstrap your config file, or find gems that were  
manually installed without GemInstaller.
- Allow for common configs to be reused across projects or  
environments by supporting multiple config files, including common  
config file snippets, and defaults with overrides.
- Allow for dynamic selection of gems, versions, and platforms to be  
used based on environment vars or any other logic.
- Avoid the “works on demo, breaks on production” syndrome
- Find lost socks.

=== Quick Start:

See [http://geminstaller.rubyforge.org/documentation/index.html](http://geminstaller.rubyforge.org/documentation/index.html)

== INSTALL:

- [sudo] gem install geminstaller