From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2010-05-11T23:10:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby gems in lib - spare tire principle

On May 10, 6:40 am, Fregas <fre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ideally, i'd like to put the
> gems in the lib folder or something and reference them from there, so
> i don't have to even install them on my dev machine. Is there a way to
> do this?

1) Create "lib/gems" folder.
2) In that folder, run "gem unpack gemname1 gemname2 ..."
-> You will get new folders for each gem
3) In the main file for your code, put
Dir.chdir( File.dirname( __FILE__ ) )
$:.unshift( *Dir['lib/gems/*/lib'] )

Ta-da!