Repost from https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/sake-for-gems-downloads-list
I have a few gems on Rubyforge and I want to track how many of them were downloaded. I found Firefox's search tools lacking to find my gem rr.
To fix this issue, I made a sake task, named gems:downloads:list, that prints the gem downloads in text.
The source is on caboo.se.
You can install it by using:
sudo gem install sake
sake -i http://pastie.caboo.se/79547.txt gems:downloads:list
sake gems:downloads:list | less
This will give an output like:
------------------------------------------------
| Gem | Downloads |
------------------------------------------------
| rails | 1194471 |
| activerecord | 1121778 |
| actionpack | 1054718 |
| activesupport | 990851 |
| actionmailer | 960759 |
| actionwebservice | 948640 |
| rake | 860824 |
| mysql | 593476 |
| fcgi | 230394 |
| mongrel | 220370 |
| daemons | 167443 |
| rmagick | 164537 |
| gem_plugin | 153505 |
| RedCloth | 147182 |
| rubygems-update | 119615 |
| net-ssh | 114369 |
| sqlite3-ruby | 105796 |
| fastthread | 95534 |
| cgi_multipart_eof_fix | 95399 |
| needle | 87718 |
Sake is way cool. It was just too easy to implement and deploy this. Have fun making your own sake tasks.