[Rubygems-developers] gem install --development ?

[Luis Lavena]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Nick Quaranto <nick at quaran.to> wrote:
> Does this...work?
>
> /tmp % gem install paperclip --development -V
> GET http://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
> 302 Found
> GET http://production.s3.rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
> 304 Not Modified
> GET http://rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz
> 302 Found
> GET http://production.s3.rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz
> 304 Not Modified
>
> Installing gem hoe-2.6.1
> ERROR:  Error installing paperclip:
>        hoe requires minitest (>= 1.6.0, development)
>
> Seems like paperclip's development dependency hits sqlite3-ruby, which has a
> dev dependency on hoe, which has a dev dependency on minitest, which has a
> dev dependency on hoe....
>
> Any ideas on what we can do to make this work once again?

I believe this is similar to the recursive runtime dependency issue we
had with 1.3.5:

http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rubygems-developers/2009-December/005132.html

Seems we need an example for development dependencies too.

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Luis Lavena
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