From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-10-06T23:03:12+09:00
Subject: Re: preview gems


Dick Davies said:
> What the rails guy do is run their own gem-server, then you do
>
> gem install rails --source http://gems.rubyonrails.com
> --include-dependencies
>
> to try out the beta version.

This is actually quite easy to do if you have access to a public web
server.  All you need to do is serve up static files.  My own beta gems
site is http://onestepback.org/betagems

Instructions for setting this up can be found at:
http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/18#page81

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