The OpenShift command-line tool, rhc
, is the most powerful and popular way to work with OpenShift. In this recipe, you will learn how to update rhc
to the latest version. OpenShift Online has a three-week release cycle, and most of the time, the rhc
client tool is also updated to either support a new feature or fix a bug. So, it always helps if you use the latest version of rhc
.
To be ready for this recipe, you will need an already installed rhc
. No other prerequisites are required.
To update the rhc
gem, run the gem update
command:
$ gem update rhc
This is all you need to do to update the rhc
command line to the latest version.
rhc
is a Ruby gem and RubyGems
is a package manager like many other package managers. It uses a central repository, which hosts installable packages. When you run the gem update
command, this command-line tool fetches the latest packages from the central repository and installs them.
When you start working with rhc
, you will soon have multiple versions of the rhc
gem installed on your machine. You can uninstall all the previous versions using the cleanup
command. This command will uninstall old versions of installed gems in the local repository:
$ gem cleanup rhc