From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-05-03T11:14:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Unpack *.gem


On May 2, 2006, at 8:54 PM, Victor Shepelev wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> Some good and interesting library at rubyforge can be downloaded  
> only as
> *.gem
>
> The question is: is there method for unpack library and view its  
> source and
> docs *without* installing it?
>
> I need such functionality very oftenly (in my local HDD repository  
> there are
> 93 libraries I've downloaded to study their code and docs, and only  
> ~10-20
> of them I currently use; so I don't want unused libraries to be  
> installed at
> all).
>
> Thanks.
>
> Victor.
>
>

Gems are just tar files. You can use tar -xvf some.gem to extract them.