A gem plugin that automatically git clones the gem's source right after every gem install so you can git log, git grep and of course write your patch there!
$ gem install gem-src
With this gem installed, every gem install you perform will be followed by automatic git clone into the installed gem's "src" directory (if the gemspec's "homepage" property points to a Git repo).
For example, when you execute
% gem i kaminari
and if the gem is installed into ~/.gem/ruby/1.8/kaminari-0.14.1 directory, you'll see Kaminari's full Git repo at ~/.gem/ruby/1.8/kaminari-0.14.1/src directory.
So, the whole directory structure will be like this.
~/.gem/ruby/1.8
├── gems
│ ├── arel-3.0.2
│ │ ├── src
│ ├── gem-src-0.2.0
│ │ ├── src
│ ├── kaminari-0.14.0
│ │ ├── src
│ ├── kaminari-0.14.1
│ │ ├── src
...
Note that if you're using RVM, each of ~/.rvm/gems/*/gems/* will have it's Git repo inside "src" directory.
Instead of cloning the repo under installed gem directory for each gem install, you can specify one single directory to keep all the cloned source repositories.
This way, git clone will no more be executed per every gem update.
This option would be more efficient particularly if you're frequently switching RVM gemsets, or using bundler with --path per each projects.
There are two ways to specify this variable:
1) `GEMSRC_CLONE_ROOT` environment variable
2) add `gemsrc_clone_root` configuration in your .gemrc
For example,
% echo "gemsrc_clone_root: ~/src" >> ~/.gemrc
% gem i active_decorator
will clone the source Git repo into ~/src/active_decorator directory if not exists.
Now, the whole directory structure will look like this.
~
├── src
│ ├── active_decorator
│ ├── capybara
│ ├── i18n_generators
...
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request