# New RubyGems Indexer

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rubygems-indexer/116461>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 5, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rubygems-indexer/116461 "2007-10-05T20:05:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rubygems-indexer/116461/1 "2007-10-05T20:05:13Z")

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Tom C. has just deployed my new RubyGems indexer in preparation  
for a RubyGems beta.

You should see fewer bulk index updates, and no more missing gems  
that you know are there.

It’s supposed to be fully backwards-compatible, but I might have  
screwed something up.

Details:

[http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/juniordeveloper/2007/10/more-reliable-](http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/juniordeveloper/2007/10/more-reliable-)  
g.html

[http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2007/10/05/rubygems-beta-approaching](http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2007/10/05/rubygems-beta-approaching)

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**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rubygems-indexer/116461/2 "2007-10-05T20:11:04Z")

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On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:04:33AM +0900, Eric H. wrote:

> [http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/juniordeveloper/2007/10/more-reliable-](http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/juniordeveloper/2007/10/more-reliable-)  
> g.html
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> [http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2007/10/05/rubygems-beta-approaching](http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2007/10/05/rubygems-beta-approaching)

Is the fast index working yet?

Paul

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**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 8:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rubygems-indexer/116461/3 "2007-10-05T20:28:37Z")

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On Oct 5, 2007, at 11:10 , Paul B. wrote:

> > Details:
> > 
> > [http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/juniordeveloper/2007/10/more-reliable-](http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/juniordeveloper/2007/10/more-reliable-)  
> > g.html
> > 
> > [http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2007/10/05/rubygems-beta-](http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2007/10/05/rubygems-beta-)  
> > approaching
> 
> Is the fast index working yet?

The quick index has been in RubyGems since 0.9.2, IIRC, but the way  
the indexer was written the files needed for it to function were  
missing more than half the time.