On 5/23/06, John Gabriele <jmg3000 / gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. Is there a central repository of gems somewhere? That is, when you
> run "gem install -r ...", where does it get the gems from?

RubyForge or RubyForge mirrors.

> 2. Rubyforge seems to have some non-obvious links that lead to lists
> of gems... (see http://gems.rubyforge.org/) Is there a connection
> between the RAA and Rubyforge?

Not between RAA and RubyForge.

> 3. With the current RubyGems 0.8.11, should we do
>
> require 'rubygems'
> require_gem 'foo'
>
> or
>
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'foo'

Never use require_gem unless you need to fix a gem version. Avoid
using it anyway, if you can.

> 4. For users (both devs creating gems, and folks installing and using
> them), what's expected to change when RubyGems 0.9.0 gets released?
> "require_gem"?

Several things. Hopefully, an activate_gem command will be added.

-austin
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