From: Daniel N <has.sox@...>
Date: 2006-06-15T12:39:00+09:00
Subject: Re: How to use unpacked GEMS

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Is there a convienient way to download the gems and their dependencies and
just storing the .gem files?

say something like
gem download rails --include-dependencies


On 6/15/06, Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> wrote:
>
> Daniel ----- wrote:
> > I have discovered the command unpack for gems.  This is very conveinent
> > since I cannot get onto the net at work where I want to install some
> > gems.
> >
> > Once I have unpacked them, what do I do with them?
>
> Well, if you want to install them, don't unpack them.  If you don't have
> net access, just copy the gems directly to a local directory and then
> install them with the gem command.  E.g.
>
>   gem install some-gem-1.0.0.gem
>
> Where some-gem-1.0.0.gem is a local file.  No need to do any unpacking
> if this is all you need.
>
> Be aware that the gem command does not process dependencies when doing a
> local install, so you have to make sure all the dependencies are
> properlly instaled as well.
>
> -- Jim Weirich
>
>
>
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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>

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