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Kelly Popko
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Today I Learned: Unpack a Gem

#ruby #beginners #programming

Today I learned how to unpack a gem:

❯ gem unpack my-gem-0.0.0.gem
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This creates a directory my-gem-0.0.0 we can navigate to cd my-gem-0.0.0:

❯ ls
my-gem-0.0.0
❯ cd my-gem-0.0.0
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From here, we can take a look at the contents.

Example:

❯ ls
bin lib
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Note: for an unknown gem, consider instead using fetch to unpack.

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