I'm pretty sure if you use jeweler to package the gem it lets you use a Gemfile 
instead of specifying deps in the gemspec, which will in turn allow you to 
specify a git repo.

-Ivan

On 12/02/2011, at 6:07 PM, Ryan Bigg wrote:

> Sadly this won't be the case. The gemspec can be read by the Gemfile (using 
> the gemspec method), but to my knowledge it is not possible the other way due 
> to rubygems loads it's dependencies.
> 
> What I would recommend is forking the gem, altering the gemspec to have a 
> name like jpartogi-gem and then pushing that to RubyGems. Then you can make 
> this gem a dependency of the first gem, and RubyGems will install it and 
> treat it just like the others.
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/02/2011, at 17:35, Chris Herring <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> If you build your gem with bundler it will have a gem file so that means you 
>> can do this:
>> 
>> gem "github-gem", :git => "git://github.com/github-gem.git"
>> 
>> And then the gem will be included in your gem, I assume this will mean you 
>> generate your gemspec it will be listed in there.
>> On Saturday, 12 February 2011 at 4:56 PM, Joshua Partogi wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I have a rubygem and would like to include another gem as dependency.
>>> Unfortunately that gem that I want to include has not been released to
>>> rubygems.org and still in github. Is it possible to include this gem
>>> in gemspec?
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Joshua.
>>> 
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