# What's with all of the recent Rails gem updates on Windows?

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 28, 2008, 11:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-with-all-of-the-recent-rails-gem-updates-on-windows/133222 "2008-03-28T23:44:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 11:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-with-all-of-the-recent-rails-gem-updates-on-windows/133222/1 "2008-03-28T23:44:23Z")

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There have been 3 updates of Rails for Windows in the last 2 weeks or  
so.

Anybody know why? Are they platform-specific security updates or  
something?

Thanks,  
Wes

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**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-with-all-of-the-recent-rails-gem-updates-on-windows/133222/2 "2008-03-29T01:02:11Z")

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Where are you getting your updates from? As far as I can see, there has  
not  
been a new version of Rails released for windows since Dec 16th.

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Wes G. \<  
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Ryan B.

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Feel free to add me to MSN and/or GTalk as this email.

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**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 6:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-with-all-of-the-recent-rails-gem-updates-on-windows/133222/3 "2008-03-31T18:11:59Z")

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I suspect that this is the case. I have another Windows box that I do  
“gem update” on and do not see these point releases of rails.

Does anyone know how to keep [gems.rubyonrails.org](http://gems.rubyonrails.org) from being searched by  
default for all gems? I really only want to consult it for updates to  
the SQL Server AR adapter.

Thanks,  
Wes

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**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 6:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-with-all-of-the-recent-rails-gem-updates-on-windows/133222/4 "2008-03-29T06:34:48Z")

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Ryan B. wrote:

> Where are you getting your updates from?

Hmm…I assumed just the regular gem repository. I’ve seen three recent  
versions that are \> 2.0.2 with 3 or 4 digits like 2.0.2093 (not exactly,  
but something like that).

One thing I’m wondering about is I recently pulled down the AR adapter  
for SQL Server v. 1.0 (about 3 or 4 weeks ago) and I had to get that  
from [gems.rubyonrails.org](http://gems.rubyonrails.org). Is it possible that now [gems.rubyonrails.org](http://gems.rubyonrails.org)  
is always being checked as a repository even though I’m doing a regular  
“gem update”, and that these “point-release-lookin’” gems are coming  
from there?

Wes

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**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-with-all-of-the-recent-rails-gem-updates-on-windows/133222/5 "2008-03-31T18:49:22Z")

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gem sources remove [http://gems.rubyonrails.org](http://gems.rubyonrails.org)

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**Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-with-all-of-the-recent-rails-gem-updates-on-windows/133222/6 "2008-04-02T18:04:01Z")

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Actually you need to use --remove (even though you don’t have to use  
–list to list the sources), like so:

C:\eclipse\workspace\>gem sources --remove [http://gems.rubyonrails.org](http://gems.rubyonrails.org)  
[http://gems.rubyonrails.org](http://gems.rubyonrails.org) removed from sources

C:\eclipse\workspace\>gem sources --list  
\*\*\* CURRENT SOURCES \*\*\*

[http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)

Wes