What changed? (gem command missing in 1.9)

[Aaron D. Gifford]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Stanislav Sedov <stas at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The gem version distributed in ruby 1.9 is too old for some ports,
> so FreeBSD uses the rubygem from ports instead.  To get the gem
> command back just install the ruby-gems port.
>
> --
> Stanislav Sedov
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Thanks for the timely reply.

That's exactly what I did after posting my question--I installed the
gems port and the rake port (rake suddenly disappeared as well).

Please forgive me now as I express my frustration and dislike over the
sudden disappearance of executables:

<vent>
I quite DISLIKE this as the "solution".

Updating ports and rebuilding the same version of a port that's been
in the tree for a long time SHOULD NOT suddenly remove a common
executable that those relying on the port have come to expect to be
present WITHOUT A BIG GIANT IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE WARNING while
building or installing the port.

This breaks so many automated scripts I have.  How I get to update
each one to check for the additional ports.  UGH!!!!  I HATE IT!

I much prefer to update gems and rake on my own systems NOT using
FreeBSD ports using "gem update --system && gem update"
</vent>

Thank you for your time and thank you for permitting me to vent on this topic.

Sincerely,
Aaron Gifford