[Rubygems-developers] Quick feature request: cd to directory of a gem

[Mauricio Fernández]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:07:32PM +1000, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> Sorry dude; just added it.  The format of the gem is irrelevant to the
> feature.  I'd rather not deal with gem files directly, no matter how

Right, this is independent from the actual format since it can use
Gem::Format, which abstracts it.

> they're represented.
> 
>   $ gem unpack rake
>   Unpacked gem: 'rake-0.4.3'
> 
>   $ gem unpack rake -v '< 0.4'
>   Unpacked gem: 'rake-0.3.1'
[...]
>     Summary:
>       Unpack an installed gem to the current directory

Isn't the very point of this being able to take a look at the sources
before installing? That's how I implemented it.

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