or the way that I do it is... svn checkout to /usr/local/src/merb make the changes to the source as needed and then gem uninstall and rake install again... extra steps but it works. :)<br><br>HTH,<br><br>rogelio<br><br><div>
<span class="gmail_quote">On 3/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ezra Zygmuntowicz</b> <<a href="mailto:ez@engineyard.com">ez@engineyard.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Mar 13, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Luke Francl wrote:<br><br>> Stupid question, but is there a way to run merb locally, without<br>> installing it as a gem? I don't mean freezing it into a merb app,<br>> but checking out merb and being able to run it without installing
<br>> the gem first.<br>><br>> The reason I ask is that I'm working on some debugging stuff and<br>> it'd be helpful to be able to modify the source code, run it,<br>> modify, run, and so on. (And yes, I am writing tests. ;-)
<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>> Luke Francl<br><br><br>Hey Luke-<br><br> There is not really a way to do that without installing the gem<br>first. You have to build the gem and then freeze the framework into<br>your app. Then you can modify it easily. This is how I work with it.
<br><br>$ rake install #builds the gem and installs<br><br># from your merb_root, not dist_root<br>$ rake freeze:merb<br><br>Then you need to use<br><br>$ script/merb<br><br> Then you can uninstall the gem. This will create a dist/framework
<br>directory with the entire merb framework in it and you can modify it<br>and use it without needing to rebuild gems all the time. ALso if you<br>do this to yoru app once, it creates the script/merb stub for you and<br>
makes the framework dir. You could then delete the framework dir and<br>do a frsh svn co of trunk into your dist/fraemwork dir. That way if<br>you make changes and want to send a patch its easy.<br><br>Cheers-<br>-- Ezra Zygmuntowicz
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