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Get the latest version of a gem

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alias latest='function _latest(){ curl -s "https://rubygems.org/api/v1/versions/$1/latest.json" | cut -d"\"" -f 4 };_latest'

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	$ latest rails
	4.2.3

zygote commented Aug 5, 2015

Thanks, this is super handy.

I modified your script for Hex (Elixir)

alias exlatest='function _latest(){ curl -s "https://hex.pm/api/packages/$1" | cut -d"\"" -f 14 };_latest'

bpinto commented Aug 5, 2015

What about using gem builtin command? e.g. gem list -r '^rails$'

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