From: Joshua Haberman <joshua@...>
Date: 2005-10-03T02:11:39+09:00
Subject: Re: why can't Ruby load .gem files directly?

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On Oct 1, 2005, at 8:59 PM, Jim Weirich wrote:

> 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.

How?

>> - I want to have more than one local gem repository [...]
>>
>
> Yes.

How?

>
>> - I want to install a gem from a gemfile I already have [...]
>>
>
> Yes.

How?

>> - 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.

How?

>> - same as the previous one, but I also want to "unpack" the gem into
>> a different directory root [...]
>>
>
> Yes.

How?

(References to documentation are fine, I just haven't been able to  
find much information about how to to do these things).

Josh

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