carlhuda/bundler — Issue #1553: API to download gem binaries from ad-hoc URLs
Author: dchelimsky
Created: 2011-11-25 10:11:56+00:00
State: open

On ruby-1.9.3, ruby-debug19 requires versions of ruby-debug-base19 and linecache19 that are not yet exposed to the gem command, but can be downloaded from [a project page on rubygems.org](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=8883). Unless I'm missing a better way, right now I have to download those gems and install them manually in order for me to be able to include them in a bundle (which I need do to be able to use them).

One way to handle this scenario would be to offer a :url option, e.g.

gem "linecache19", "0.5.13", :url => "http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/75414/linecache19-0.5.13.gem"