Download Ruby gems without installing

When you need to patch an existing gem, one way is to "vendor" the gem by copying it into the vendor/gems directory of your Rails project. You can then make any changes you require and Rails will use the vendored version of the gem after a serve...

At makandra, we've built a few gems over the years. Some of these are quite popular: spreewald (> 1M downloads), active_type (> 1M downloads), and geordi (> 200k downloads)

Developing a Ruby gem is different from developing Rails applications, w...

You're better off using debugger-ruby_core_source:

gem install debugger-ruby_core_source

If you can't do this, try the following.

Here is how to fix the following error when installing the debugger gem fails:

Gem::Instal...

After you configured your ODBC describe in

• [Fix [RubyODBC]Cannot allocate SQLHENV when connecting to MSSQL 2005 with Ruby 1.8.7. on Ubuntu 10.10](https://makandracards.com/makandra/7553-fix-rubyodbc-cannot-allocate-sqlhenv-when-connecting-to-ms...

A recent patch level Ruby update caused troubles to some of us as applications started to complain about incompatible gem versions. I'll try to explain how the...

Our new scope-based authorization gem for Ruby on Rails has been released. This might one day replace Aegis as our standard authorization solution.

If you encounter above mentioned failiure message after installing the ruby-debug gem then you have to explicitly require linecache version 0.43 in your Gemfile.

gem 'ruby-debug'
gem 'linecache', '=0.43'

Unfortunately vanilla Ruby modules lack support for many idioms popular in modern Ruby. Most importantly, we have become accustomed to composing our classes with meta-programming macros such as has_many, validates_presence_of or after_save. And mo...

Tod is a gem for working with daytimes. That's a tuple of (hour, minute second) without a day, month or year.

Another additional gem?

Thus SQL has a time datatype for storing time of day in the format hh:mm:ss, neither Ruby nor Rails t...