How do I get a list of gems that are installed that have native extensions?

Question

I\'m on windows, and have updated from ruby 1.8.x to 1.9.x, and am now getting error popups that complain ruby-mssomethingrt.1.8.x.dll is missing.

I would like to fi

Answer 1

A good start would be to look at the gem specification for each gem and see if it has the extensions field set. That should leave you with a short-list of gems to re-install. They don't necessarily all use native extensions, but if you look at the corresponding extconf.rb files, this should be pretty easy to find out.

Update: Here is a short ruby script to list those gems:

require 'rubygems'

Gem.source_index.each do |gem|
  spec =  Gem.source_index.specification(gem[0])
  ext = spec.extensions
  puts "#{gem[0]} has extensions: #{ext}" unless ext.empty?
end