Builds a nodeset of all of the preceding nodes of the supplied node, in reverse document order
includes every element in the document that precedes this node,
except for ancestors
Reads tuple from the proxied TupleSpace. See TupleSpace#read.
Called by the TupleSpace to check if the object is still alive.
Advertises this service on the primary remote TupleSpace.
A TupleEntry is dead when it is canceled or expired.
Has this tuple expired? (true/false).
A tuple has expired when its expiry timer based on the sec argument to initialize runs out.
Reset the expiry time according to sec_or_renewer.
nilit is set to expire in the far future.
trueit has expired.
Numericit will expire in that many seconds.
Otherwise the argument refers to some kind of renewer object which will reset its expiry time.
Reads tuple, but does not remove it.
Reset the authoritative instance of the command manager.
Verifies that this gem:
Contains a valid gem specification
Contains a contents archive
The contents archive is not corrupt
After verification the gem specification from the gem is available from spec
Resets HTTP connection connection.
Declare that a gem of name name with reqs requirements is needed.
Factory method to create a Gem::Requirement object. Input may be a Version, a String, or nil. Intended to simplify client code.
If the input is “weird”, the default version requirement is returned.
Factory method to create a Version object. Input may be a Version or a String. Intended to simplify client code.
ver1 = Version.create('1.3.17') # -> (Version object) ver2 = Version.create(ver1) # -> (ver1) ver3 = Version.create(nil) # -> nil