From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2009-07-14T10:53:40+09:00
Subject: Re: (just) retrieve and unpack a gem

Rich Morin wrote:
> 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, ...

Oh no--you can unpack arbitrary gems [I think that's the only ones you 
can].
gem fetch gem_name
gem  unpack gem_name.version.gem
Cheers.
=r
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