gem-patch - a tool for patching gems

[Josef Stribny]

Hi,

I want to let you know about gem-patch plugin that I made for both RubyGems 1.8.x and 2.0.x.

gem-patch is a RubyGems plugin that helps to patch gems without manually opening and rebuilding them.
It adds the `patch` command which opens a given .gem file, extracts it, patches it with system patch command,
clones its spec, updates the file list and builds the patched gem.

Intended as a new feature of RubyGems [1], it has been released as a gem [2], and source code (with separated branches
for RubyGems 1.8 and 2.0) is available on GitHub [3].

To use it:
- install the gem (0.1.1)
gem install gem-patch 
- and patch:
gem patch GEMFILE PATCH [PATCH ...]

Regards
Josef

[1] https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/381
[2] https://rubygems.org/gems/gem-patch
[3] http://github.com/strzibny/gem-patch

[John Eckersberg]

Josef Stribny  writes:
> Hi,
>
> I want to let you know about gem-patch plugin that I made for both RubyGems 1.8.x and 2.0.x.
>
> gem-patch is a RubyGems plugin that helps to patch gems without manually opening and rebuilding them.
> It adds the `patch` command which opens a given .gem file, extracts it, patches it with system patch command,
> clones its spec, updates the file list and builds the patched gem.
>
> Intended as a new feature of RubyGems [1], it has been released as a gem [2], and source code (with separated branches
> for RubyGems 1.8 and 2.0) is available on GitHub [3].
>
> To use it:
> install the gem (0.1.1)
>
> gem install gem-patch
> and patch:
>
> gem patch GEMFILE PATCH [PATCH ...]
>
> Regards
> Josef
>
> [1] https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/381
> [2] https://rubygems.org/gems/gem-patch
> [3] http://github.com/strzibny/gem-patch
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Very cool, that has always annoyed me when applying patches for gem RPMs.