Bundler and gems on github

Question

So when you have bundler install a gem from github, it doesn't actually get installed, does it? gem list won't list those gems.

Which brings me to my conundrum: I'm working on a script that wants to use one of these gems that don't actually get installed. Now what? I could check out the github repo manually and build/install the gem, but now I've got one version being managed by bundler and another that's not. I could point the script to the gem directory in ~/.rvm but that's not a great idea when it comes time to go to production.

I'm trying to find a bundler command that will make any gems from github "register" with rubygems, but nothing so far. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Ironically this is the same answer as a previous question I had, which I answered myself with this same solution (although it was a little different in bundler 0.9):

require 'rubygems'
require 'bundler/setup'
require 'hiddengem'

bundler/setup makes the bundler "stack" available just as if they were regularly installed gems. Sooner or later I'll remember this. :)