Currently, I have the stable version of a gem (specifically, nanoc3) installed with RubyGems. However, I would like to fork the developer's repository to hack on some stuff. What's the recommended way to have a gem installed (it doesn't actually have to be installed in a technical sense, just somewhere that I can use it if I need to without redownloading) but still work on its repository (and have the repository's lib directory loaded into the Ruby path)?
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What I ended up doing was building the gem inside the repo, installing it with gem install, and then deleting ~/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/nanoc3-3.1.0a1 and symlinking it to the repository root.
LeafStorm
2010-02-18 17:34:19