How to install a downloaded Ruby gem file?

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Solution

Maybe I have not fully understood the question. But if you just want to install a gem that you have on your local machine, all you need to do from the console is go into the directory containing your gem and `gem install --local your.gem`.

Problem

How does "gem install" works ? It is not intuitive... My gem is really here : ``` [root@localhost Téléchargement]# ll *.gem -rw-rw-r-- 1 jean jean 16353818 mar 5 11:39 ruby-processing-1.0.9.gem ``` But an idiomatic "gem install" does not see it... ``` [root@localhost Téléchargement]# gem install ruby-processing-1.0.9.gem ERROR: could not find gem ruby-processing-1.0.9.gem locally or in a repository ``` What's wrong with that ?

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