unpacking files from a gem file?

[Rich Morin]

Let's say I have a gem file (eg, foo.1.2.3.gem) and I
want to unpack it into a directory. Is there an easy
way to do this?

* It seems like I should be able to use "gem unpack",
but I don't see any options for this.

* I tried crawling down into the gem sources, but
they do a lot more than I need to do and are far
more complex than I want to deal with.

* I was able to unpack a gemfile using a couple of
applications of "tar xzf", although I got some
nastygrams about invalid date stamps. However,
this seems a bit unsafe as a general approach.

What am I missing?

-r
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[Nick Quaranto]

Hey Rich,

This mailing list is mostly about issues with rubygems.org, not for general help with rubygems. I would direct further questions to rubygems-developers:

http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers

Gem unpack definitely unpacks a gem.

[/tmp] gem fetch rake                                

Fetching: rake-0.9.2.2.gem (100%)

Downloaded rake-0.9.2.2

[/tmp] gem unpack rake-0.9.2.2.gem                   

Unpacked gem: '/private/tmp/rake-0.9.2.2'

[/tmp] tree rake-0.9.2.2

rake-0.9.2.2

├── CHANGES

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