Dependency on vendored gems in gemspec

[svoop]

I'm trying to build a gem which contains vendored gems. The idea: Non-essential parts of the gem functionality are extracted into plugins (think: Roda) and each plugin is wrapped as a vendored gem. Why? It's easier to later extract plugins into separate gems if need be. (And it solves some naming issues as well.)

When doing this in a Ruby project, it works as expected. However, when I move the vendored gems inside the Ruby gem project, I hit a wall.

Here's an example gem which is just a vanilla gem (created with bundle gem) and two alterations:

• a vendored vanilla gem (created with bundle gem) inside vendor/gems/myvendoredgem
• the main gem depends on the vendored gem

bundle install doesn't like this:

Because every version of mygem depends on myvendoredgem >= 0
and myvendoredgem >= 0 could not be found in rubygems repository
https://rubygems.org/ or installed locally,

That's not correct, at least not if "installed locally" includes those inside vendor/gems.

Is it possible to get this to work?

[pboling]

You have to specify the path in the Gemfile.