[Rails] Re: Installing gem from source

Fred comes once again to the rescue! :)

Thanks buddy. I owe you (another) one. Unfortunately I am running into
other problems now but I think I'll be OK after this major (for me)
hurdle.

On May 24, 2:50 pm, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On May 24, 7:10 pm, pepe <P...@BetterRPG.com> wrote:> I need to install the latest actionwebservice from source. I have
> > spent quite a bit of time looking for info on the net and reading
> > books but couldn't find a clear and cut set of instructions about how
> > to do this.
>
> > This is the first time I try to build a gem from source and I am
> > unsure as how to proceed. I don't know if I need to 'build' the gem or
> > what else to do. I have tried running both the 'setup.rb' and
> > 'install.rb' that come with the gem but that did not work. I am kind
> > of out of ideas.
>
> you run gem build blah.gemspec. This should create a .gem file
> somewhere in that folder, you can then do gem install blah.gem
>
> Fred
>
> > Any help would be appreciated.
>
> > Thank you.
>
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