Installing a gem locally (RubyForge.org unreachable)

[Phrogz]

I'm trying to get a coworker set up, and rubygems isn't working,
because rubyforge.org is down[1].

I have the .gem file on my machine. How can I tell rubygems "Hey, the
gem is sitting right here in this very directory! Install from this!"?

[1] Tracing route to rubyforge.org [66.92.150.242]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 69.46.18.1
2 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 69.46.31.77
3 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 38.112.240.53
4 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 66.28.4.141
5 11 ms 11 ms 12 ms 66.28.4.154
6 31 ms 30 ms 30 ms 154.54.10.130
7 30 ms 30 ms 31 ms 205.171.21.101
8 32 ms 31 ms 33 ms 205.171.8.154
9 30 ms 37 ms 31 ms 205.171.8.222
10 30 ms 37 ms 38 ms 205.171.251.14
11 30 ms 31 ms 30 ms 65.126.30.174
12 * * * Request timed out.

 

[Phrogz]

Just as I posted this, rubyforge.org seems to be back up again. So
crisis averted.

But the original question I've still wondered for a while now: How do
you ask RubyGems to install a supplied .gem file?

 

[Tom Copeland]

I'm trying to get a coworker set up, and rubygems isn't working,
because rubyforge.org is down[1].

Back up now...

Yours,

tom

 

[Jagged]

gem install rails -l (that is an "el")

 

[Damphyr]

gem install rails -l (that is an "el")

Well, this is the correct way, but you can also run 'gem install ' on
the directory you have the gem file (the dirty lazy way ).
gem looks for a local file before going "overseas".
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[Phrogz]

Does that assume that there is a "rails.gem" file in the current
directory? In the gems library folder? Somewhere else?

 

[Ezra Zygmuntowicz]

Does that assume that there is a "rails.gem" file in the current
directory? In the gems library folder? Somewhere else?

One unambigous way to install a .gem file locally is to cd into the
dir where the .gem file is and spell it out:

gem install mygem.gem

This always seems to work for me.
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-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
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