# Freeze only a single gem?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/freeze-only-a-single-gem/104368>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 17, 2007, 7:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/freeze-only-a-single-gem/104368 "2007-05-17T07:56:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![chirag](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@chirag](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chirag)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 7:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/freeze-only-a-single-gem/104368/1 "2007-05-17T07:56:00Z")

</div>

I know this may be a silly question, but how do I freeze only the ruby-  
debug and ruby-debug-base gems?

To my knowledge, the following command freezes only the Rails runtime,  
correct?  
rake rails:freeze:gems

I tried rake ruby-debug:freeze:gems and no luck.

Thanks!  
Chirag

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![chirag](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@chirag](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chirag)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/freeze-only-a-single-gem/104368/2 "2007-05-17T15:14:21Z")

</div>

On 2007-May-16, at 23:55 , chirag wrote:

> Thanks!  
> Chirag

[http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2005/12/22/freeze-other-gems-to-rails-](http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2005/12/22/freeze-other-gems-to-rails-)  
lib-directory

Carpe viam,  
Mike

Michael Larocque  
Chief Cook and Bottle Washer  
Prolumina Communications Inc.  
[http://prolumina.com/~mlarocque/](http://prolumina.com/~mlarocque/)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![chirag](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@chirag](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chirag)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/freeze-only-a-single-gem/104368/3 "2007-05-18T20:31:06Z")

</div>

unpack it to the vendor directory via gem unpack