Hi Mikel,

Thanks for the advise. Would that be considered a dirty approach
because you are thrashing rubygems.org? Please advise.

Kind regards

On Saturday, February 12, 2011, Mikel Lindsaar <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/02/2011, at 1:56 PM, Joshua Partogi wrote:
>> 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?
>
> You can include it via Bundler as Chris and Ivan has suggested, but it won't 
> be listed as a gem dependency in rubygems.
>
> ie, having it in the gem file, means you could go into the installed gem 
> directory and type "bundle install" to install all the gems you need, but the 
> dependent gems listed this way will not be installed when you do a "gem 
> install yourgem" which I think is your expected behaviour.
>
> A "simple" solution, is fork the git repo, make a gem of the code and publish 
> it as "yourname-gemname" and depend on that until an "official" version is 
> released.
>
> Mikel
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