Installing a gem from Github with Bundler

Question

I am trying to use the instructions here to install a pre-released version of a gem with bundler.

The "bundle install" output lists the gem as getting installed, but "gem list" fails to find it.

My Gemfile:

source :gemcutter

gem 'sinatra', '1.1.0', :git => 'http://github.com/sinatra/sinatra.git'
gem 'RedCloth', '4.2.3'

Here is a gist with the rest of my sample code.

Has anyone gotten this scenario to work?

NOTE: I am also using RVM (on OS X). bundle show does list the gem (and dependencies) as existing, but I am not able to properly resolve them.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I would look at the load paths, and further debug from there, example:

...(master) $ irb
irb(main):001:0> $LOAD_PATH.count
=> 8
irb(main):004:0> require 'bundler/setup'
=> true
irb(main):005:0> $LOAD_PATH.count
=> 112
irb(main):006:0> 

Bundler configures the load path for you, this means not all the gems are included on your load path by default.

Additionally, from the bundler git help:

Because Rubygems lacks the ability to handle gems from git, any gems installed from a git repository will not show up in gem list. They will, however, be available after running Bundler.setup.

Best regards, hope this helps

ED