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Asked: 2026-06-01T13:42:11+00:00

I want to download the code for a gem, but the author didn’t give

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I want to download the code for a gem, but the author didn’t give a link to a Github repository (or anything else) to download it from directly. For now, did gem install and copied the directory under “ruby/gems/…”, where the source is located. Is there an easier way of doing this (a one-liner)?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can gem unpack gem_name, which will unpack the gem in the current working directory. If it is already installed the local version will be used, otherwise it will be fetched first:

    → gem unpack datamapper
Fetching: datamapper-1.2.0.gem (100%)
Unpacked gem: '/Users/michi/datamapper-1.2.0'
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