enginex and installing gem locally?

Hi,
I have been playing around bundle gem as outlined in recent railscast by Ryan Bates (http://railscasts.com/episodes/245-new-gem-with…) and it was this cast that prompted me to find out a lot more about engines, gems and plugins for Rails and how they work hence the purchase of your Crafting Rails Applications book (BTW – thank you for sharing your knowledge) and I find myself confused.

I wrote a couple of engines using bundle gem which I found really easy to install into other apps locally without having to publish them first using the rake build and install commands but now I have built the pdf renderer gem using enginex I find myself struggling to install the gem locally for inclusion in an external (rather than the internal dummy app) for real life integration and I would like to know if there is a simple way to do this and if so perhaps it should be mentioned in the book?

James,

The only thing that is probably missing in Enginex is the gemspec. After adding a gemspec, you can easily use it in order applications. If you want to use bundler gemspec, you can do the following:

# Create a new enginex project
enginex your_engine
cd your_engine

# Create a bundler project inside the enginex one and copy the gemfile
bundle gem your_engine
mv your_engine/your_engine.gemspec your_engine.gemspec

# Remove the bundler project, leaving just the enginex one
rm -r your_engine