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I have just updated my blog's Rubygems sidebar a bit. I experienced some difficulties with my previous approach to let the blog application fetch the gem source index itself: It seemed to hang from time to time. I am not quite sure why that happened.

Now I just read the cached index from the $HOME/.gem/source_cache file, where $HOME is the home directory with correct permissions for the user under which my blog runs.

To update this cache I periodically execute

gem list --source=http://gems.rubyforge.org -r >/dev/null

in the cron of my blog user.

Here's a gzipped tar archive of the sidebar. It can just be extracted into the typo src dir.

After extraction a require dependecy has to be added to typo:

Index: config/environment.rb
===================================================================
--- config/environment.rb       (revision 1276)
+++ config/environment.rb       (working copy)
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@
 require_dependency 'aggregations/fortythree'
 require_dependency 'aggregations/magnolia'
 require_dependency 'aggregations/upcoming'
+require_dependency 'aggregations/rubygems'
 require_dependency 'xmlrpc_fix'
 require_dependency 'transforms'
 require_dependency 'builder'

After restarting this should take care of loading the rubygems aggregation on demand. Now the sidebar can be configured through typo's admin interface with some AJAX magic. W00t!