# Gps gems

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gps-gems/138515>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 23, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gps-gems/138515 "2008-05-23T21:41:49Z")\
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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:** [May 23, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gps-gems/138515/1 "2008-05-23T21:41:49Z")

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what’s the deal with the gps gems?

`gem install gps` installs gps-0.0.1 by Nolan D…

If you download the gem from [http://rubyforge.org/projects/gps](http://rubyforge.org/projects/gps) then you  
get gps-0.0.1.5 by Sascha Teske.

The licenses are different, some of the code is the same…

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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:** [May 23, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gps-gems/138515/2 "2008-05-23T22:08:21Z")

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On May 23, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> what’s the deal with the gps gems?
> 
> `gem install gps` installs gps-0.0.1 by Nolan D…
> 
> If you download the gem from [http://rubyforge.org/projects/gps](http://rubyforge.org/projects/gps) then  
> you get gps-0.0.1.5 by Sascha Teske.
> 
> The licenses are different, some of the code is the same…

There are probably two of the same name from different sources. Since  
the older one already exists the newer one will not enter the index.  
Check with Tom C. to see where gps-0.0.1 came from.

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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:** [May 24, 2008, 12:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gps-gems/138515/3 "2008-05-24T00:33:16Z")

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On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 05:02 +0900, Eric H. wrote:

> There are probably two of the same name from different sources. Since  
> the older one already exists the newer one will not enter the index.  
> Check with Tom C. to see where gps-0.0.1 came from.

Yup, the “gps” gem is from the “hermes” project:

[http://rubyforge.org/projects/hermes/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/hermes/)

Yours,

Tom

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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:** [May 24, 2008, 7:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gps-gems/138515/4 "2008-05-24T07:29:11Z")

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Lol.

Should someone not electronically matchmake/mediate and get these two  
together formally!-)

[http://rubyforge.org/projects/gps](http://rubyforge.org/projects/gps)