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How to tell the Gem File to use a specific local copy of a gem

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ruby-on-rails

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Say I have a gem living happily at:

  1. /MyPath/MyGem.gem

And I want to use the local and unique gem rather than a gem version from Github, or wherever it fetches it from.

How do I specify I want to use gem "mygem" from /MyPath/MyGem.gem

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JZ. Avatar asked Jun 02 '11 21:06

JZ.

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Try, in your Gemfile:

gem "mygem", :path => "/MyPath/MyGem.gem"

Note that it's probably best to use a relative link in there, like:

gem "mygem", :path => "vendor/MyPath/MyGem.gem"
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Jits Avatar answered Sep 29 '22 14:09

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