Installs a gem along with all its dependencies from local and remote gems.

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Documentation types. For use by the Gem.done_installing hook

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Errors from SpecFetcher while searching for remote specifications

List of gems installed by install in alphabetic order

Class Methods

Creates a new installer instance.

Options are:

:cache_dir

Alternate repository path to store .gem files in.

:domain

:local, :remote, or :both. :local only searches gems in the current directory. :remote searches only gems in Gem::sources. :both searches both.

:env_shebang

See Gem::Installer::new.

:force

See Gem::Installer#install.

:format_executable

See Gem::Installer#initialize.

:ignore_dependencies

Don’t install any dependencies.

:install_dir

See Gem::Installer#install.

:prerelease

Allow prerelease versions. See install.

:security_policy

See Gem::Installer::new and Gem::Security.

:user_install

See Gem::Installer.new

:wrappers

See Gem::Installer::new

:build_args

See Gem::Installer::new

Instance Methods

Indicated, based on the requested domain, if local gems should be considered.

Indicated, based on the requested domain, if remote gems should be considered.

Finds a spec and the source_uri it came from for gem gem_name and version. Returns an Array of specs and sources required for installation of the gem.

Installs the gem dep_or_name and all its dependencies. Returns an Array of installed gem specifications.

If the :prerelease option is set and there is a prerelease for dep_or_name the prerelease version will be installed.

Unless explicitly specified as a prerelease dependency, prerelease gems that dep_or_name depend on will not be installed.

If c-1.a depends on b-1 and a-1.a and there is a gem b-1.a available then c-1.a, b-1 and a-1.a will be installed. b-1.a will need to be installed separately.