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Release 1.0.0 fixes several bugs.

Major New Features Include:

• RubyGems warns about various problems with gemspecs during gem building
• More-consistent versioning for the RubyGems software

Other Changes Include:

• Fixed various bugs and problems with installing gems on Windows
• Fixed using gem server for installing gems
• Various operations are even more verbose with—verbose
• Built gems are now backwards compatible with 0.9.4
• Improved detection of RUBYOPT loading rubygems
• ruby setup.rb now has a—help option
• Gem::Specification#bindir is now respected on installation
• Executable stubs can now be installed to match ruby’s name, so if ruby is installed as ‘ruby18’, foo_exec will be installed as ‘foo_exec18’
• gem unpack can now unpack into a specific directory with—target
• OpenSSL is no longer required by default

Deprecations and Deletions:

• Kernel#require_gem has been removed
• Executables without a shebang will not be wrapped in a future version, this may cause such executables to fail to operate on installation
• Gem::Platform constants other than RUBY and CURRENT have been removed
• Gem::RemoteInstaller was removed
• Gem::Specification#test_suite_file and #test_suite_file= are deprecated in favor of #test_file and #test_file=
• Gem::Specification#autorequire= has been deprecated
• Time::today will be removed in a future version

How can I get RubyGems?

NOTE: If you have installed RubyGems using a package you may want to install a new RubyGems through the same packaging system.

If you have a recent version of RubyGems (0.8.5 or later), then all you need to do is:

gem update --system   (you might need to be admin/root)

(Note: You may have to run the command twice if you have any previosly installed rubygems-update gems).

If you have an older version of RubyGems installed, then you can still do it in two steps:

gem install rubygems-update  (again, might need to be admin/root)
update_rubygems              (... here too)

If you don’t have any gems install, there is still the pre-gem approach to getting software … doing it manually:

• DOWNLOAD FROM: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126
• UNPACK INTO A DIRECTORY AND CD THERE
• INSTALL WITH: ruby setup.rb (you may need admin/root privilege)

Thanks

Keep those gems coming!