Latest

Latest keeps us up to speed by querying rubygems.org for a gem's most recent version number. Yep, that's all it does.

Basically I was tired of visiting https://rubygems.org/gems/whatever-gem to find out a gem's most recent version.

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Usage

After installing, use latest from your command line like so:

latest rails
# rails 3.2.2 (41013 downloads)

latest rails spree haml
# rails 3.2.2 (41014 downloads)
# spree 1.0.1 (279 downloads)
# haml 3.1.4 (289029 downloads)

latest rails spree --pre haml
# rails 3.2.2 (41015 downloads)
# spree --pre 1.0.0.rc4 (134 downloads)
# haml 3.1.4 (289029 downloads)

You can print latest's version like so:

latest -v
# Latest v0.4.0

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Installation

As usual, just use the gem install command:

gem install latest
# or
sudo gem install latest

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Testing

Testing is done with minitest/spec. Run the specs with:

bundle exec rake

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Requirements

Other than rake and bundler for development, Latest has zero gem dependencies! All it requires is Ruby >= 1.9.2.

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License

Copyright (c) 2011 - 2012 Spencer Steffen & Citrus, released under the New BSD License All rights reserved.