From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2008-02-01T07:10:28+09:00
Subject: Re: how do you install a local gem?

Alle Thursday 31 January 2008, 7stud -- ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> I downloaded the file:
>
> wxruby-1.9.4-universal-darwin.gem.tar
>
> How do I install that?  When I try to untar it with this command:
>
> tar -xvf /Users/me/Desktop/wxruby-1.9.4-universal-darwin.gem.tar
>
> I get the error:
>
> data.tar.gz
> tar: Read 3501 bytes from
> /Users/autie/Desktop/wxruby-1.9.4-universal-darwin.gem.tar
> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> And even if I did untar it, I don't know how to install it.  I install a
> remote gem like this:
>
> $ gem install -r wxruby
>
> If it is a local file, do I just cd to the directory the file is in and
> type:
>
> $ gem install wxruby
>
> ???

In linux, you simply do:

gem install gem_file.gem

What I find strange is the name of the file you downloaded, since the 
extension should be .gem, not .gem.tar. Did you get it from rubyforge? From 
the rubyforge wxruby page, I could download a file called 

wxruby-1.9.4-universal-darwin.gem

Of course, being on linux, I can't try to install it.

I hope this helps

Stefano