From: Victor Shepelev <vshepelev@...>
Date: 2006-05-03T11:22:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Unpack *.gem

> > 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.

Thanks Logan.
I should guess it by myself :)

V.