Andrew Hodgkinson wrote:
> Mason Brown wrote:
> 
>> Is there a way to list, but not install, updated gems?
> 
> All I could think of was querying the local gems, querying the remote 
> gems, then comparing the version numbers on the remote gems also in the 
> local repository. I've thrown a Ruby script together to do it, though it 
> lacks any elegance and has only had minimal testing:
> 
>   http://pond.org.uk/misc/gem-would-update.rb
> 
> Is there a better way?

That's exactly the type of thing I was looking for.  Thanks for the 
quick and awesome response.

Maybe the gem project would consider including this kind of 
functionality as a future feature?  They obviously already maintain 
local and remote versions and compare them to determine if they need to 
be upgraded.

Again, thanks!

-Mason


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