This small plugin to Rails solves the problem that rake gems:install depends on Rake, which loads all tasks in the current subtree. Since a task can have load-time dependencies on gems, this might prevent Rake from starting up, thus making it inpossible to run the task, that should install the missing gems. A classical catch-22.
The plugin moves gem dependencies into config/gemconf.rb and adds the script script/install_gems to your Rails project.
After that, you can install gems with script/install_gems. This is a simple script, that doesn't have any gem dependencies, thus guaranteeing it to run, as long as Ruby and rubygems are installed.
Copyright: Unwire A/S, 2009
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Denmark License
troelskn@gmail.com - June, 2009