Manually adding a Ruby Gem

Question

I am trying to install the mechanize gem that is supposed to work with 1.9 from here: http://github.com/kemiller/mechanize but I do not know how to add it manually.

I am using Windows, I could just copy the folder to the gems directory, but how do I initialize it?

Answer 1

I'm not sure I understand the problem. gem install mechanize doesn't work? It produces version 0.9.3 for me, which matches the gemspec of the library you linked to.

EDIT: you're on 1.9. I knew that. Disregard my hasty post, not familiar enough with Windows to offer any help on building the extensions.