The platform this gem runs on.
This is usually Gem::Platform::RUBY or Gem::Platform::CURRENT.
Most gems contain pure Ruby code; they should simply leave the default value in place. Some gems contain C (or other) code to be compiled into a Ruby “extension”. The gem should leave the default value in place unless the code will only compile on a certain type of system. Some gems consist of pre-compiled code (“binary gems”). It’s especially important that they set the platform attribute appropriately. A shortcut is to set the platform to Gem::Platform::CURRENT, which will cause the gem builder to set the platform to the appropriate value for the system on which the build is being performed.
If this attribute is set to a non-default value, it will be included in the filename of the gem when it is built such as: nokogiri-1.6.0-x86-mingw32.gem
Usage:
spec.platform = Gem::Platform.local
Returns a Gem::StubSpecification for every installed gem
Reset the list of known specs, running pre and post reset hooks registered in Gem.
Abbreviate the spec for downloading. Abbreviated specs are only used for searching, downloading and related activities and do not need deployment specific information (e.g. list of files). So we abbreviate the spec, making it much smaller for quicker downloads.
Singular reader for authors. Returns the first author in the list
The list of author names who wrote this gem.
spec.authors = ['Chad Fowler', 'Jim Weirich', 'Rich Kilmer']
Normalize the list of files so that:
All file lists have redundancies removed.
Files referenced in the extra_rdoc_files are included in the package file list.
The platform this gem runs on. See Gem::Platform for details.
Performs the uninstall of the gem. This removes the spec, the Gem directory, and the cached .gem file.
the spec of the gem to be uninstalled
Parses and redacts uri
Normalize the URI by adding “http://” if it is missing.
Renders the document back to a string
Renders the given line
Also allows us to represent source code as an array of code lines.
When we have an array of code line elements calling ‘join` on the array will call `to_s` on each element, which essentially converts it back into it’s original source string.
Returns an array of syntax error messages
If no missing pairs are found it falls back on the original error messages