From: "Bartosz Dziewoński" <matma.rex@...>
Date: 2012-09-08T04:57:05+09:00
Subject: Re: How to patch ruby's gem before an install ?

2012/9/7 Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net>:
> On Sep 7, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also, .gem files are just ZIP archives, you can unpack them with any
>> archiver and modify the contents.
>
> .gem files are tar files which contain (at least) a gzipped YAML file (metadata.gz, the gem spec) and a data.tar.gz (A gzipped tar file). Tools that only handle zip will not unpack them.

Whoops, thanks for the correction.

-- Matma Rex