From: Lee Hinman <matthew.hinman@...>
Date: 2009-06-26T03:15:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Gem development

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Martin Hess<martinhess@me.com> wrote:
> When you are developing a gem, and you want to add examples, how do you get
> your example to find your gem without installing your gem?
>
> i.e. suppose you have
>
> mygem/
>        examples/
>                example1.rb
>        lib/
>
> and example1.rb starts with
>        require "mygem"
>
> but your gem isn't installed yet so how does example1.rb find the right
> code?
>
> Is there some trick for this, or do people just install their gem first?

You can do this to run your example:

mygem% ruby -I lib examples/example1.rb

The '-I lib' will add 'lib' to the include path for Ruby.