I am beginning development of my first Gem for a Rails app. I am curious what some best practices are regarding development workflow.
As the Gem will be Rails dependent, it seems as though it needs to be vendored so that I can easily run tests, write code and see changes during development instead of rebuilding and reinstalling the gem hundreds of times daily.
I was thinking that a good way to handle this would be to have the Gem structure live in the context of a "development only" Rails app, and that all files except the Gem files would be added to .gitignore.
But as I have yet to build a Rails dependent Gem, I don't know what the preferred way to do this is.
How do you guys handle Gem dev workflow?
Thanks, Elliott G