How do i use a dependency from github in my gemspec?

Question

I currently have the following in my Gemfile:

gem 'voteable_mongo'#,       :github => 'kamilski81/voteable_mongo'

and I migrating my models into a .gemspec, but i'm not sure how this would look inside my gemspec. I currently have:

s.add_dependency "voteable_mongo"

But this ends up using the wrong dependenty (the original one I cloned) I would like to use my dependency. How could i point my gemspec dependency to my github repo?

Answer 1

As stated in the gem specification, the list of gems that you provide through add_dependency will be used to make sure those are already installed in the system during the installation process (i.e gem install), hence a git option wouldn't make sense since this doesn't trigger any additional installation of any dependencies (like Bundler does).

In summary: it's not possible to do what you're trying to do within a .gemspec