From: dkmd_nielsen <donn@...>
Date: 2007-03-22T23:20:12+09:00
Subject: Ruby Gem question, updating a gem of a called procedure

How does one control Gem when it is a gem of a called procedure that
is being enhanced.  The gem to be enhanced has been checked out and I
would like to unit test it, but the called procedure contains a gem
statement.  Specifically:

Primary procedure does this:

gem 'CmsStandards'
require 'CmsStandards'
require 'Project'
gem 'CmsPresort'
require 'CmsPresort'
require 'PresortSummaryReport'

The secondary procedure is in the CmsPresort gem, and the
CmsPresort.rb header looks like this:

require 'fileutils'
require 'Date'
require 'rubygems'
require 'zip/zip'
gem 'CmsStandards'
require 'CmsStandards'
require 'Project'
require 'ChgTable'
gem 'FirstLogicTemplate'
require 'FirstLogicTemplate'

It is the FirstLogicTemplate gem that is being enhanced.  It is
"checked out" into a test area; it is the only thing checked out.  It
is the only thing I want checked out.  But gem will load it from the
gem library.  Correct?

How does one communicate that the FirstLogicTemplate should be loaded
from a test library before it is loaded from a production gem library?

Any and all Gem advice will be appreciated.  I do not understand how I
can setup Gem to permit a more traditional library check in/check out
for development, test, and production.

dvn