[Mongrel] versioning of win32 versus ruby gems

[Steven Hansen]

Charles Brian Quinn wrote:
> I know we already mentioned this before on the list but I couldn't
> find it in the archives.  Is there a way to differentiate the versions
> for ruby/mswin32 so that I could run a command like:
>
> # sudo gem install mongrel
> --source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases/ --include-dependencies
> --version 1.0
>
> and have it not prompt me like this:
>
> Select which gem to install for your platform (i686-linux)
>  1. mongrel 1.0 (ruby)
>  2. mongrel 1.0 (mswin32)
>  3. Cancel installation
>
> my feeble attempts at scripting this and trying to automatically pipe
> or echo 1 into the installation are failing.
>
> Anyone know how to do this automatically, or could we somehow add a
> number or letter to the version?
>
>   

I believe this thread has what you are looking for:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/226938

Regards,
Steven