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 > http://rubyx.com/ > http://lindsaar.net/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- http://twitter.com/jpartogi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en.
