user_dir() Class Public methods Path for gems in the user's home directory

use_paths(home, *paths) Class Public methods Use the home and paths values for ::dir and ::path. Used mainly by the unit tests to provide environment isolation.

ui() Class Public methods Lazily loads DefaultUserInteraction and returns the default UI.

try_activate(path) Class Public methods Try to activate a gem containing path. Returns true if activation succeeded or wasn't needed because it was already activated. Returns false if it can't find the path in a gem.

time(msg, width = 0, display = Gem.configuration.verbose) Class Public methods Prints the amount of time the supplied block takes to run using the debug UI output.

suffixes() Class Public methods Suffixes for require-able paths.

suffix_pattern() Class Public methods Glob pattern for require-able path suffixes.

sources=(new_sources) Class Public methods Need to be able to set the sources without calling ::sources.replace since that would cause an infinite loop. DOC: This comment is not documentation about the method itself, it's more of a code comment about the implementation.

sources() Class Public methods Returns an Array of sources to fetch remote gems from. Uses ::default_sources if the sources list is empty.

rubygems_version() Class Public methods A Gem::Version for the currently running RubyGems