Sorry, if I should have been able to find some docs to point me in the right direction, but so far here is what I figured out from trial and error and some source code reading.
I want to unpack a gem already on my machine: gem unpack a_gem Then I want to retrieve the gem spec gem specification a_gem (then more stuff but this will get me started) So far I have the simple code: require "rubygems" Gem.manage_gems if gem = ARGV.first puts "Processing #{gem}" runner = Gem::GemRunner.new puts "Unpack #{gem}" runner.run ['unpack', gem] runner.run(['specification', gem]) end This works; however, the run command displays to the screen. Is there an easy way to capture its output? I see there is a default interface object, with a method called say I could grab, but that seems pretty messy. I could also grab the stdout handle and play games there, but again, I feel I am missing something. Thanks in advance for your time pth _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers