Keeping track of gems.

Is there a tool to keep track of gems and the deploy them to servers? I have lots of gems installed but I only need a subset of them on the production machines. It's a bit of a mess but here is the situation.

1) I develop on windows but deploy on linux so I can't have the exact same gem on the two different architectures. 2) It seems like with every iteration I add more gems but I have no way to keep track of which gems are on which servers. 3) I don't want all the gems on my development server to go to all the production servers for all the projects.

What I am looking for is a way to specify that project A needs gems 1,2,3,4 and then somehow have capistrano make sure those gems are installed for the proper platform.

I can't be the only person with this problem, I am hoping it's already been solved.

Thanks.

I use a custom capistrano task to keep the gems up to date on my servers.

I use a custom capistrano task to keep the gems up to date on my servers.

Would you mind sharing?

Would you mind sharing?

http://pastie.caboo.se/61986

You might also check out puppet[1]... It's very helpful if you have more than one machine to manage.

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[1] http://puppet.reductivelabs.com/

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