Listing installed gems

S

Shilo Ayalon

Hi -

I'm trying to find out if there's a simple way to list all the gems I
have installed on my system (linux/windows), or perhaps there exists a
rake task that does this. Of course, I could execute ls/dir on my gem
directory, but just wanted to see if there's already something like this
or more (say, list gem and version).

I'd appreciate any feedback - thanks!
 
S

Stefano Crocco

Alle domenica 25 gennaio 2009, Shilo Ayalon ha scritto:
Hi -

I'm trying to find out if there's a simple way to list all the gems I
have installed on my system (linux/windows), or perhaps there exists a
rake task that does this. Of course, I could execute ls/dir on my gem
directory, but just wanted to see if there's already something like this
or more (say, list gem and version).

I'd appreciate any feedback - thanks!

Doesn't

gem list

does what you want? On my system (with rubygems 1.3.1) this command prints a
list of all the installed gems, together with their version. For example, a
part of the list looks like this:

rdoc (2.2.1)
RedCloth (4.1.1)
rice (1.0.2)
rspec (1.1.12, 1.1.10)
ruby-debug (0.10.3)
ruby-debug-base (0.10.3, 0.10.2)
rubyforge (1.0.1)
RubyInline (3.8.1)

Stefano
 
T

Tom Cloyd

Shilo said:
Bingo, must have missed that in the gem --help (yup, feeling dumb right
now).

Thanks!
technically, the correct command, I believe is "gem list --local" or
"gem list -l"

And, here's another one I just learned (from this list) - in case you
missed it:

If I want to know if I have a particular gem installed, say "webby", any
of these will return the desired result:

gem list | grep we
gem list | grep ebb
gem list | grep bey

$ gem list | grep ebb
webby (0.9.3)


t.

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R

Rob Biedenharn

technically, the correct command, I believe is "gem list --local" or
"gem list -l"

And, here's another one I just learned (from this list) - in case
you missed it:

If I want to know if I have a particular gem installed, say "webby",
any of these will return the desired result:

gem list | grep we
gem list | grep ebb
gem list | grep bey

$ gem list | grep ebb
webby (0.9.3)

t.
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In that case, you can give a prefix to gem list:

$ gem list --local ra

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

rack (0.9.1)
rails (2.1.2, 2.1.0, 2.0.2, 1.2.6, 1.2.5, 1.2.3)
rake (0.8.3, 0.8.1, 0.7.3)

This gets unfortunately messy with github building gems now:

$ gem list --local w

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

webgen (0.5.0, 0.4.7, 0.4.6)

$ gem list --local | grep -e paginate
mislav-will_paginate (2.3.6)

Oh well, "progress"!

-Rob

Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com
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Tom Cloyd

Rob said:
In that case, you can give a prefix to gem list:

$ gem list --local ra

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

rack (0.9.1)
rails (2.1.2, 2.1.0, 2.0.2, 1.2.6, 1.2.5, 1.2.3)
rake (0.8.3, 0.8.1, 0.7.3)
OK, that's interesting, but not equivalent, I find:

* gem list -l ra => lists all local gems BEGINNING with "ra"
* gem list -l | grep ra => list all CONTAINING "ra"

It's nice to have options, eh? (unless you don't know about them!)

t.

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Luc Heinrich

In that case, you can give a prefix to gem list:

$ gem list --local ra

This prefix can apparently be a regular expression so you can do:

% gem list -l ".*ra"

to list all gems containing "ra".
 

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