From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2008-02-01T07:37:14+09:00
Subject: Re: how do you install a local gem?

Stefano Crocco wrote:
> Alle Thursday 31 January 2008, 7stud -- ha scritto:
>> I get the error:
>>
>> $ 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
> /Users/me/Desktop/wxruby-1.9.4-universal-darwin.gem.tar
>
> 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


Thanks for the response.  This is the file I downloaded:

http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/30865/wxruby-1.9.4.tar.gz

I think OS X automatically unzips a file after I download it producing:

/Users/me/Desktop/wxruby-1.9.4-universal-darwin.gem.tar
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