Question

I’m attempting to gem install twitter-bootstrap-rails on my windows machine. This gem has a dependency on therubyracer, which is not yet compatible with Windows. I found this:

therubyracer gem on windows

Which tells me I should just be able to lean on JScript. Though I don’t know how to tell the gem install to ignore dependencies. I’ve tried to force install with:

    gem install -f twitter-bootstrap-rails --platform ruby 

To no avail. Does anyone how I can say something like “gem install twitter-bootstrap-rails [but ignore that dependency on therubyracer]”?

Answer 1

According to this doc, there’s the options

-f, --[no-]force            Force gem to install, bypassing dependency checks

and

--ignore-dependencies        Do not install any required dependent gems