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 <jstribny(a)redhat.com&gt; 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.