Rubygems-update 2.0.3 Released

Homepage:: http://rubygems.org
Announcements:: http://blog.rubygems.org
Documentation:: http://guides.rubygems.org
Support:: http://help.rubygems.org
Source:: GitHub - rubygems/rubygems: Library packaging and distribution for Ruby.
Bugtracker:: Issues · rubygems/rubygems · GitHub

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

See UPGRADING.rdoc for more details and alternative instructions.


If you don’t have RubyGems installed, you can still do it manually:

For more details and other options, see:

ruby setup.rb --help

Changes:

  • Bug fixes:
    • Reverted automatic upgrade to HTTPS as it breaks RubyGems APIs.
      Fixes
      #506 by Andr Arko
    • Use File.realpath to remove extra / while checking if files are
      installable. Issue #508 by Jacob Evans.
    • When installing RubyGems on JRuby, the standard library is no longer
      deleted. Fixes #504 by Juan Sanchez, #507 by Charles Oliver N…
    • When building extconf.rb extensions use the intermediate destination
      directory. This addresses further issues with C extension building.
    • Use the absolute path to the generated siteconf in case the
      extension
      changes directories to run extconf.rb (like memcached). Fixes #498
      by
      Chris M…
    • Fixed default gem key and cert locations. Pull request #511 by
      Samuel
      Cochran.