RubyGems recipes Edit

Created 1/20/2007, updated 5/18/2017

List all locally installed gems

gem list

List available remote gems

gem list --remote

Self-updating RubyGems

sudo gem update rubygems-update

Updating an installed gem

Example: updating the rake gem:

sudo gem update rake

Installing a new gem for the first time

Example: installing the rspec gem and some helpers:

sudo gem install rspec
sudo gem install diff-lcs
sudo gem install rcov