# Getting bleeding edge rails **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 22, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-bleeding-edge-rails/168535 "2009-05-22T03:53:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![builtbysimple](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@builtbysimple](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/builtbysimple)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-bleeding-edge-rails/168535/1 "2009-05-22T03:53:54Z")
Dear all, I would like to work on the latest rails version from github. I have pulled it and set my $GEM\_PATH to where I pulled it : /home/joshua/rails/ But when I worked on it, gem barfed out and did not recognize it. But when I typed: gem environment, it displayed /home/joshua/rails/ as my $GEM\_PATH Can anyone that has worked with bleeding edge version tell me what is the proper way to do this? Thank you very much for your assistance. Regards. – Join [Scrum8.com](http://Scrum8.com). [http://scrum8.com/jpartogi/](http://scrum8.com/jpartogi/) [http://twitter.com/scrum8](http://twitter.com/scrum8) ---
**Author:** ![builtbysimple](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@builtbysimple](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/builtbysimple)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 9:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-bleeding-edge-rails/168535/2 "2009-05-22T09:16:00Z")
On May 22, 2:52 am, Joshua P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > put what you have cloned from github into vendor/rails (or symlink vendor/rails to your checkout from github) Fred ---
**Author:** ![builtbysimple](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@builtbysimple](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/builtbysimple)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-bleeding-edge-rails/168535/3 "2009-05-22T15:46:45Z")
On May 22, 5:14 pm, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > put what you have cloned from github into vendor/rails (or symlink > vendor/rails to your checkout from github) Thanks Frederick. But how come I don’t get the 3-0-0-unstable branch ? ---
**Author:** ![builtbysimple](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@builtbysimple](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/builtbysimple)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 4:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-bleeding-edge-rails/168535/4 "2009-05-22T16:15:27Z")
On May 22, 2:45 pm, Joshua P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > On May 22, 5:14 pm, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > wrote: > > > put what you have cloned from github into vendor/rails (or symlink > > vendor/rails to your checkout from github) > > Thanks Frederick. But how come I don’t get the 3-0-0-unstable branch ? because it just checks out master by default. Just checkout whatever branch you need. Fred ---
**Author:** ![builtbysimple](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@builtbysimple](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/builtbysimple)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2009, 2:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-bleeding-edge-rails/168535/5 "2009-05-23T02:38:44Z")
On May 23, 12:14 am, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > because it just checks out master by default. Just checkout whatever > branch you need. Hi Frederick, I’ve just realised I can’t use symlink on windows. What is the environment variables for ruby library path? I tried RUBYPATH and it doesn’t work. Thank you very much for helping. ---
**Author:** ![builtbysimple](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@builtbysimple](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/builtbysimple)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2009, 12:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-bleeding-edge-rails/168535/6 "2009-05-23T12:04:25Z")
> Hi Frederick, > > I’ve just realised I can’t use symlink on windows. What is the > environment variables for ruby library path? I tried RUBYPATH and it > doesn’t work. Thank you very much for helping. in that case put your rails checkout from github in your\_app/vendor/ rails Fred