Development mode for gems - no build and install after each change, share gems-in-development between rails/merb apps, run executables from local bin folder.

Installing

gem sources -a gems.github.com sudo gem install senotrusov-gem-here

Staging

1. cd to your home or projects dir

2. run “gem-here” It will create the following directories: gem-sources, bin, gems, specifications

3. Place some gem sources to gem-sources (pull it from github, checkout from subversion, etc.)

4. run “gem-here” one more time from the same dir, so it will:

   - make runners in bin,
   - create symlinks from gems to gem-sources,
   - make dummy gem specifications.
   

   Gem version will be taken from gemname.gemspec file or it will be 999.0.0

Next you can run bins from your gems using bin/foo. You may want to add bin to your PATH. If you using your home dir for that some Linux added it automatically.

Using in rails/other application other than gem/bin

1. Place your application (rails/merb) in directory some level deep from home/project dir where you staged developer gems

2. require ‘gem-here’

3. require any other gem - it will first be searched in gem-sources

A picture of that

~/bin (here be runners for your gem’s bin files)

~/gem-sources (your gems working copies) ~/gem-sources/mygem (like that) ~/gem-sources/mygem/lib ~/gem-sources/mygem/mygem.gemspec

~/gems (symlinks here) ~/specifications (dummy specs here)

~/apps/my-rails-app ~/my-other-rails-app