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ppaul74
ppaul74

Reputation: 751

custom gem with rails 3. No such file to load

I created a custom gem called pdf2html. The gem file is pdf2html-0.1.gem

I placed this file in the vendor directory of rails 3 project.

My Gemfile entry for this gems reads as follows

gem 'pdf2html', '0.1' , :path => 'vendor'

When I run the bundle install command I get the following message regarding this gem

* pdf2html at `vendor` will not be cached.

I tried doing a bundle show on this gem it tells me that it is installed in the vendor directory.

Now when I do a rails console and try to do a require 'pdf2html' I get a "No such file to load error"/

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong

Thanks Paul

Upvotes: 1

Views: 663

Answers (2)

ppaul74
ppaul74

Reputation: 751

I pushed the gem and associated files over to github and then installed it from there using the Gemfile/ bundle install. Now its working fine. I could not figure out how to use the local gem file

Upvotes: 1

tadman
tadman

Reputation: 211540

I thought the proper way to declare gems was to specify the full path, not the base path, as in:

gem 'pdf2html', '0.1', :path => 'vendor/pdf2html'

The reason it doesn't error out sooner is that the path vendor/ actually exists so there's no immediate problem. It's only when you try to require vendor/pdf2html.rb, which is missing, that there's an issue raised.

Upvotes: 1

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