From: geistteufel <geistteufel@...>
Date: 2009-07-14T10:44:53+09:00
Subject: Re: (just) retrieve and unpack a gem

Rich Morin a écrit :
> I need to retrieve and unpack a large number of gems, without
> either (a) affecting my local gem installation or (b) getting
> involved with dependencies.  "gem fetch" will retrieve random
> gems, but "gem unpack" is a bit more picky.
>
> According to http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/10#page34:
>
>   You can only unpack gems that you have installed, ...
>
> I can hack the gem command to get the results I want, but it
> seems like there should be a way to do this.  Clues, anyone?
>
> -r
>   
Do it like this

cd /tmp
GEM_HOME=$PWD GEM_PATH=$PWD gem install PACKAGE
So look in cache directory. All gem is there.
Just do gem unpack GEM and done !
System is protected ! You can do it as user to be sure of that.


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