Installing a branched gem from git?

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Happy Holidays,

This question happens to be about juggernaut, but the problem is generic. I am waiting to be accepted to the juggernaut google group or I would post there.

I am playing with juggernaut and I see that the latest commit by the original author is version 5.7

If I do sudo gem install juggernaut, I get version juggernaut-0.5.7 in usr..ruby..gems.

when I install the the branch by ripta, I get ripta-juggernaut-0.5.8 in the gems dir. If I do a clone: git clone git://github.com/ripta/juggernaut_gem.git

I get a third version named juggernaut_gem (v=0.5.8) that has a gemspec. (not in the usr..gem dir)

As I write this the thought occurs to me that maybe I should install the gem from the third directory....

.............Time passes as I try that..........

but I can't seem to make that work.

These fail (plus many more) gem install juggernaut-0.5.8 --source "/home/rubyfreak/rails_projects/ juggernaut/juggernaut_gem" gem install juggernaut-0.5.8 --install-dir "/home/rubyfreak/ rails_projects/juggernaut/juggernaut_gem"

How do I handle this? require ripta-juggernaut #doesn't make sense to me. I want to require juggernaut and get v-0.5.8

Thanks in advance

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Still stuck here

any help would be appreciated as to how to handle branched gems with prefixed names.

Thanks

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Hmm I sure can't hurt. I will give it a try. I didn't realize that I could move gems into vendor/gems with unpack. Seems like it defeats the advantage of gems over plugins... unless they get updated. but I might get to alias the name.

I will mess with it this evening

Thanks