How to install a downloaded Ruby gem file?

Question

How does \"gem install\" works ? It is not intuitive...

My gem is really here :

[root@localhost Téléchargement]# ll *.gem
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jean jean 16353818         


        

Answer 1

Maybe I have not fully understood the question. But if you just want to install a gem that you have on your local machine, all you need to do from the console is go into the directory containing your gem and gem install --local your.gem.