How to use a local copy of rails in a rails application

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Sorry for a primitive question, but how can i use a local copy of rails with my rails 3 application (locally)?

Quick googling didn't help, and on StackOverflow there is something about putting local rails to the "vendor" directory, but it does not seem to work for me.

Thanks.

Alexey.

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Sorry for a primitive question, but how can i use a local copy of rails with my rails 3 application (locally)?

Quick googling didn't help, and on StackOverflow there is something about putting local rails to the "vendor" directory, but it does not seem to work for me.

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Thanks Craig, this works! And i think i've found and fixed my first bug in rails.

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Can you clarify exactly what you mean please? Give an example of what you are trying to achieve. Also tell us which version(s) of rails you are interested in as the answer may vary.

Colin

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Colin Law wrote in post #1034532:

Can you clarify exactly what you mean please? Give an example of what you are trying to achieve. Also tell us which version(s) of rails you are interested in as the answer may vary.

Colin

The link that Craig gave explained the solution:

It was enough to add `:path => ` to Gemfile:

gem 'rails', '~>3.1.0', :path => "path/to/my/clone/of/rails"

(i actually copied the folder with my copy of rails git repository to vendor/rails). After that my sample application started using this copy of rails instead of rails gem.