Using a Gem in your App without installing to the system

Rails
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Does anyone know how to use a gem without installing it to the rails
installation? For example, I can download the Money gem package from
http://dist.leetsoft.com/ but if I don’t have the ability to install a
gem at my hosting provider, how can I use the gem in my app?

Cheers,
Dan

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Just put the ruby files ofthe Money gem into the lib folder of your
rails
app.

there exists even a thirdparty rake task for that (but which did not
work
propoperly for me on windows) , just google for the topfunky blog

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On Saturday, March 25, 2006, at 9:29 PM, Roberto S. wrote:

Just put the ruby files ofthe Money gem into the lib folder of your rails
app.

there exists even a thirdparty rake task for that (but which did not work
propoperly for me on windows) , just google for the topfunky blog

I’ve also written a rake task for this (which should work on win32 as
well).

http://locomotive.raaum.org/home/show/Freeze

(I wrote it for people using my Mac Locomotive application - but it’s
not specific to Locomotive or Mac in any way).

-r

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Ryan R. wrote:

http://locomotive.raaum.org/home/show/Freeze

(I wrote it for people using my Mac Locomotive application - but it’s
not specific to Locomotive or Mac in any way).

Thank you!

On DreamHost I found that Dir::tmpdir didn’t exist (checked in irb, and
it really didn’t), so I made a tmp directory and hard-coded the tmp_dir
to refer to it. Then it worked fine.

Justin