gemfiles and branches

I came across this little nugget in the gemfile manual today:

Git repositories support a number of additional options. **branch**, **tag**, and **ref** You MUST only specify at most one of these options. The default is :branch => "master"

I can now specify the rails3 branch of acts_as_geocodable in my gemfile with:

gem 'acts_as_geocodable',
  :git => 'git://github.com/collectiveidea/acts_as_geocodable.git',
  :branch => 'rails3'

Brian Ryckbost

Comments

Daniel Morrison
September 28, 2010 at 14:04 PM

What? acts_as_geocodable is updated for Rails 3? Can’t wait to see a gem release soon! ;)
Dom
June 23, 2011 at 22:16 PM

Nice tip - thank you!
Rob Warner
September 08, 2011 at 9:24 AM

You saved me yesterday with OmniAuth–blogged here: http://www.grailbox.com/2011/09/using-omniauth-0-3-0-rc1-with-rails-3-1/

Thanks!
Brian Ryckbost
September 08, 2011 at 10:40 AM

@Rob Warner: Awesome. Glad this helped!