# RubyGems 1.3.7 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 14, 2010, 6:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-3-7/188577 "2010-05-14T06:54:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [May 14, 2010, 6:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-3-7/188577/1 "2010-05-14T06:54:03Z")
rubygems version 1.3.7 has been released! - [http://rubygems.org/](http://rubygems.org/) - [http://docs.rubygems.org/](http://docs.rubygems.org/) - [http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/](http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/) - [http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems) RubyGems is a package management framework for Ruby. This gem is an update for the RubyGems software. You must have an installation of RubyGems before this update can be applied. See Gem for information on RubyGems (or `ri Gem`) To upgrade to the latest RubyGems, run: $ gem update --system # you might need to be an administrator or root NOTE: RubyGems 1.1 and 1.2 have problems upgrading when there is no rubygems-update installed. You will need to use the following instructions if you see “Nothing to update”. If you have an older version of RubyGems installed, then you can still do it in two steps: $ gem install rubygems-update # again, might need to be admin/root $ update\_rubygems # … here too If you don’t have any RubyGems install, there is still the pre-gem approach to getting software, doing it manually: 1. Download from: [http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=126](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126) 2. Unpack into a directory and cd there 3. Install with: ruby setup.rb # you may need admin/root privilege For more details and other options, see: ruby setup.rb --help Changes: ### 1.3.7 / 2010-05-13 NOTE: [http://rubygems.org](http://rubygems.org) is now the default source for downloading gems. You may have sources set via ~/.gemrc, so you should replace [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) with [http://rubygems.org](http://rubygems.org) [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) will continue to work for the forseeable future. New features: - `gem` commands - `gem install` and `gem fetch` now report alternate platforms when a matching one couldn’t be found. - `gem contents` --prefix is now the default as specified in --help. Bug #27211 by Mamoru T… - `gem fetch` can fetch of old versions again. Bug #27960 by Eric Hankins. - `gem query` and friends output now lists platforms. Bug #27856 by Greg Hazel. - `gem server` now allows specification of multiple gem dirs for documentation. Bug #27573 by Yuki S… - `gem unpack` can unpack gems again. Bug #27872 by Timothy Jones. - `gem unpack` now unpacks remote gems. - –user-install is no longer the default. If you really liked it, see Gem::ConfigFile to learn how to set it by default. (This change was made in 1.3.6) - RubyGems now has platform support for IronRuby. Patch #27951 by Will Green. Bug fixes: - Require rubygems/custom\_require if --disable-gem was set. Bug #27700 by Roger P… - RubyGems now protects against exceptions being raised by plugins. - rubygems/builder now requires user\_interaction. Ruby Bug #1040 by Phillip Toland. - Gem::Dependency support #version\_requirements= with a warning. Fix for old Rails versions. Bug #27868 by Wei Jen Lu. - Gem::PackageTask depends on the package dir like the other rake package tasks so dependencies can be hooked up correctly. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-3-7/188577/2 "2010-05-14T16:30:40Z")
Eric H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > - RubyGems now protects against exceptions being raised by plugins. This sounds great. It turned out that rdoc\_osx\_dictionary, with its rubygems plugin, was what was killing my gems, rdoc, and the whole bit. The situation was so bad that I couldn’t even get gem to uninstall rdoc\_osx\_dictionary - I had to rip it physically out of the computer in order for gem to work at all. It sounds like this feature will protect against this kind of vicious circle. m. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-3-7/188577/3 "2010-05-14T16:36:32Z")
On May 13, 2010, at 11:53 PM, Eric H. wrote: > rubygems version 1.3.7 has been released! Thanks for your continued work on this! What a great contribution to the community… cr ---
**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:** [May 14, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-3-7/188577/4 "2010-05-14T19:39:52Z")
On May 14, 2010, at 09:21, Wayne E. Seguin wrote: > One question, when I go to [http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=126](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126) I do > not see a 1.3.7 release, has it not updated yet? Looks like I still need to do some work on the release portion of the Rakefile, maybe next release will do this automatically again. I’ve put them up by hand. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-3-7/188577/5 "2010-05-14T18:22:54Z")
Eric, Nice job on the release. One question, when I go to [http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=126](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126) I do not see a 1.3.7 release, has it not updated yet? Thanks! ~Wayne ---
**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:** [June 30, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-3-7/188577/6 "2010-06-30T17:05:37Z")
On Jun 30, 10:57 am, Roger P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Installing RubyGems 1.3.7 > ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::Exception) > [BUG] invalid exec\_format “ir”, no %s > RubyGems system software updated > > C:\dev\ruby\downloads\rubygems-1.3.7\>ir setup.rb > ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::Exception) > [BUG] invalid exec\_format “ir”, no %s No, you can’t update IronRuby with gem update --system Use a IronRuby R.Gems 1.3.7 powered version, which is latest one. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-3-7/188577/7 "2010-06-30T17:33:38Z")
> No, you can’t update IronRuby with gem update --system Appears that currently you can’t update it by running setup.rb, either… > Use a IronRuby R.Gems 1.3.7 powered version, which is latest one. for me 1.0.0v4 came with 1.3.5 Perhaps there is some newer version available that I’m unaware of? -r ---
**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:** [June 30, 2010, 3:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-3-7/188577/8 "2010-06-30T15:57:25Z")
> - RubyGems now has platform support for IronRuby. Patch #27951 by Will > Green. Hmm. Perhaps it could use a bit more IR love? C:\dev\digitalarchive\_trunk\>igem update --system Updating RubyGems Updating rubygems-update Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.3.7 Updating RubyGems to 1.3.7 Installing RubyGems 1.3.7 ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::Exception) [BUG] invalid exec\_format “ir”, no %s RubyGems system software updated C:\dev\ruby\downloads\rubygems-1.3.7\>ir setup.rb ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::Exception) [BUG] invalid exec\_format “ir”, no %s ---
**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:** [June 30, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-1-3-7/188577/9 "2010-06-30T19:34:21Z")
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Roger P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > No, you can’t update IronRuby with gem update --system > > Appears that currently you can’t update it by running setup.rb, > either… > > > Use a IronRuby R.Gems 1.3.7 powered version, which is latest one. > > for me 1.0.0v4 came with 1.3.5 I was getting the same error. Will G. posted a fix on his blog [http://hotgazpacho.org/2010/05/ironruby-gem-update-system/](http://hotgazpacho.org/2010/05/ironruby-gem-update-system/) . I was able to upgrade to 1.3.7 after adding that file. C:\>ir -S gem update --system > Perhaps there is some newer version available that I’m unaware of? I don’t see anything newer on codeplex or rubyforge.