[Rubygems-developers] Can't pull down gemspec

[Luis Lavena]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Chad Woolley <thewoolleyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Trans <transfire at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, I've tried everything I can think of, but I can't seem to find a
>> way to pull down the gemspec of a specific version of a gem. All I can
>> get is the most recent version.
>>
>>  $ gem spec --remote turn
>>
>> But
>>
>>  $ gem spec --remote turn -v0.5.1
>>  ERROR:  Unknown gem 'turn'
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Yeah, strange behavior.  Seems like a bug in the argument parsing for
> the spec command.

spec is supposed to take --all argument

By default spec will use the latest version in the gem in the quick
index, so --all should do the trick, but it doesn't work.
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Luis Lavena
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