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RubyGems 0.9.5 is almost done, and has loads of good stuff in it, including platform support and an improved indexer script:

[W]e were rebuilding the gem index on RubyForge, [...] doing it “in place”, so that the current index would be overwritten and then populated over the course of the build.  These take a fair while – 10 minutes or so – and during that time the index was essentially empty.  Booooo.

Well, no longer.  Eric Hodel has twiddled the gem index builder to build it in a temporary directory and then move it in place.  So those gem index outages should be a thing of the past.  Thanks Eric!

—More reliable gem installs via Junior developer

This will also reduce the number of bulk index updates dramatically, since it’ll actually be there nearly all the time.

Also, Wilson Bilkovich added a new Marshal formatted index that will reduce both bandwidth usage and memory consumption. Instead of 120M or so it takes to do a bulk yaml index update, it takes about 30M with a Marshal index update. You’ll have to wait for the beta to test this one out, though.