install gem from specific branch

Question

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2823492/install-gem-from-github-branch

I have been following the guide from that thread. When I get to step 4, rake gem , I get an error

rake aborted! Don't know how to build task 'gem'

Answer 1

Looks like they are using Jeweler which has a rake build task to build the gem.

You can check what rake tasks are available by doing rake -T or rake -vT (more verbose). If I do that in a gem's root directory that uses Jeweler I get:

rake build                    # Build gem

as an option.

I think you can also skip the manual install step by doing rake install too.