Local Install of capistrano

Question

This question is specific to capistrano, but it's a general gem question too.

I have to download and then install gems - no remote connection available.

I went to github and downloaded capistrano as tarball. I get the file thoughtbot-capistrano-d1229b2.tar.gz

To install do I now... - rename the tarball with a .gem extension and run

gem install thoughtbot-capistrano-d1229b2.gem

• just untar it to my local gem directory?

• something else?

Thanks

Answer 1

You need to build the tarbal using whatever mechanism is provided, in the case of (capistrano-capistrano) this is jeweler, so you can probably do rake gem:build and have a gem you can install with gem install ./capistrano-2.5.10.gem - since you are using thoughtbot-capistrano… all bets are off, their fork is way out of date.