The recommended way to do this is to unpack the gems locally with "rake gems:unpack" commit the vendored gems, and push them to Heroku with the rest of your code.
You can also use "rake gems:unpack" from the rake console. /Morten On Nov 18, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Sean Schofield wrote: > > I have a rails app I'm trying to deploy on Heroku but I can't start it > up because several of the required gems are missing. That's not > surprising, but I can't figure out how to install them or make use of > the Heroku copies of these gems. We're talking the gems that you > would normally install with rake gems:install in a Rails 2.1 app. > > I finally discovered a gem/plugin manager buried in the "vendor" > directory of the control panel. That's a very bizarre place to put > something like that by the way. I only found it after an extensive > google search. I would expect this kind of thing to be in a tab or > menu item somewhere that was immediately obvious. > > Anyways, I'm seeing directory entries for all of my required gems and > some indication that they are installed. Unfortunately they don't > really seem to be installed because 'rake gems' still shows them as > missing. Any suggestions? > > Heroku looks nice by the way. Very interesting possibilities for a > service like this I think. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
