Be able to show remote version

[guilhem]

I'm not a gem guru, so maybe it's possible but I don't know how.

I would like to find the remote version of a gem that I try to install with specific_install.
via cli or ruby API.

I would like to use it with Chef.
For now, my implementation always install gem from repo even if same version is here... that's a bad things.

[rdp]

So this would basically build the gem, spit outs its version to stdout,
then not install it? Is that right? (If no response then will just close
this...)

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Zander Hill notifications@github.comwrote:

Do you mean a command like gem specific_install gemname --info

And it returns just a version number or a summary of the gem info?

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[guilhem]

basically, it will only git clone and report version that is in .gemspec

[zph]

I don't have the time/need to develop this feature but a PR would be very welcome & we can walk you through the process @guilhem.

You could probably copy the behavior from another commandline arg and then tie into existing methods to find the version number. If not, I can try to help point you in the right direction.