From: Jim Weirich Date: 2005-10-02T12:59:59+09:00 Subject: Re: why can't Ruby load .gem files directly? On Saturday 01 October 2005 11:12 pm, Joshua Haberman wrote: > [...] For example, can gems support these use cases? > > - I want to try out a gem on a system where I don't have root. [...] Yes. > - I want to have more than one local gem repository [...] Yes. > - I want to install a gem from a gemfile I already have [...] Yes. > - I want to "unpack" a gem into a directory structure that can be > deployed to another machine, without having to run "gem" on the > remote machine Yes. > - same as the previous one, but I also want to "unpack" the gem into > a different directory root [...] Yes. -- -- Jim Weirich jim@weirichhouse.org http://onestepback.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)