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J.Krzus
J.Krzus

Reputation: 334

What is the best way to have ruby gem locally but not pushing it to remote

I'm curious if there is some comfortable way to use some gem locally but not pushing it to a public repository. For example, let's assume that project I'm working on is not using in development gem likebetter_errors, but it may be very useful for me. I know I could add it to my Gemfile and just not include it in a commit, but then I could forget about it and push it someday. Also keeping it in mind all the time may be frustrating.
I just wonder is there some nice way to have it automatically included in the local copy and preventing from pushing.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 63

Answers (1)

spickermann
spickermann

Reputation: 106882

You could add an initializer like this to your Rails app:

# in config/initializers/local_gems.rb
%q[better_errors binding_of_caller].each do |gem|
  require(gem) rescue puts("Gem not installed: #{gem}")
end

But this only loads the gem when it was installed before and that means you have to install it manually and cannot use bundler.

Upvotes: 1

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