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title: "2011 03 07 installing newrelic api gem from github"
description: "I needed to correlate some logs with New Relic monitoring data. I started doing this manually... and got bored very quickly. It was too slow and painstaking. After some poking around I came across [newrelic_api](https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic_api) (not to be confused with [rpm](https://github.com/newrelic/rpm), which is the monitoring agent)."
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date: 2026-07-10T10:58:46.492Z
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# 2011 03 07 installing newrelic api gem from github
I needed to correlate some logs with New Relic monitoring data. I started doing this manually... and got bored very quickly. It was too slow and painstaking. After some poking around I came across [newrelic_api](https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic_api) (not to be confused with [rpm](https://github.com/newrelic/rpm), which is the monitoring agent).

## Overview

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title: Installing newrelic_api gem from GitHub
date: 2011-03-07
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slug: installing-newrelic_api-gem-from-github
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I needed to correlate some logs with New Relic monitoring data. I started doing this manually... and got bored very quickly. It was too slow and painstaking. After some poking around I came across [newrelic_api](https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic_api) (not to be confused with [rpm](https://github.com/newrelic/rpm), which is the monitoring agent).

Next thing I discovered... I had no idea how to install gems from GitHub!

No longer!

~~~ text
wintermute:~/Git $ mkdir newrelic
wintermute:~/Git $ cd newrelic/
wintermute:~/Git/newrelic $ git clone git://github.com/newrelic/newrelic_api.git
Cloning into newrelic_api...
remote: Counting objects: 132, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (116/116), done.
remote: Total 132 (delta 59), reused 0 (delta 0) Receiving objects: 100% (132/132), 26.02 KiB, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (59/59), done.
wintermute:~/Git/newrelic $ cd newrelic_api/
wintermute:~/Git/newrelic/newrelic_api (master)$ ls
CHANGELOG Gemfile.lock README.rdoc VERSION log test Gemfile LICENSE.txt Rakefile lib newrelic_api.gemspec
wintermute:~/Git/newrelic/newrelic_api (master)$ gem build newrelic_api.gemspec
Successfully built RubyGem
Name: newrelic_api
Version: 1.1.1
File: newrelic_api-1.1.1.gem
wintermute:~/Git/newrelic/newrelic_api (master)$ gem install newrelic_api-1.1.1.gem
Successfully installed newrelic_api-1.1.1
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for newrelic_api-1.1.1...
Installing RDoc documentation for newrelic_api-1.1.1...
wintermute:~/Git/newrelic/newrelic_api (master)$
~~~

It's as simple as that.

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