Download Ruby gems without installing

Henning Koch

July 12, 2016Software engineer at makandra GmbH

You can download .gem files using gem fetch:

gem fetch activesupport consul

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This will produce files like active-support-5.0.0.gem and consul-0.12.1.gem in your working directory.

Dependencies will not be downloaded.

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Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2016-07-12 14:13)