From: elise huard <huard.elise@...>
Date: 2010-09-27T17:46:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Contributing to a gem on github

or rather, require all the necessary files from the one loaded when
you load the gem.

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:43 AM, elise huard <huard.elise@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, there is a gem I want to use (bones-extras), but the part I want to use
>> doesn't work on 1.9.2 since they removed "." from the path (extremely
>> irritating, btw).
>>
>> On my system, I can fix it, by editing the source to add "." to the
>> beginning of the file path, but that doesn't help anyone else, and it
>> doesn't help me later if I try to work on my project on a different
>> computer.
>>
>> I figure this is a good opportunity to help an open source project, but I'm
>> not sure what to do. I know that I fork it on github, clone my fork, make
>> the change, push it back up, then send a pull request. But is there a blog
>> or anything that talks about the extra stuff? Do I change the version? How
>> do I word my commit? Are there any expectations of me that I should take
>> care to observe? How long do I keep my fork?
>>
>> I want to contribute to other projects out, but the process seems
>> undocumented, and I'm unsure of my obligations / expectations.
>>
>
> out of curiosity (google won't tell me, and probably missed that
> particular discussion on teh mailing list): why was '.' removed from
> the load path ?
>
> as to the above question, my guess would be:
> add
> $: << "."
> where relevant.  There might be a more elegant way, though.
>