modifying a gem changes won't take effect

I am trying to modify the albino gem slightly but any change I make to it does not take effect including ones that should break the gem like dropping everything in the python script https://github.com/austinbv/albino/blob/master/vendor/multipygmentize to one line.

The gem was installed with bundler, and I am using rvm. The gem is stored in ~/.rvm/gems/ruby_version@project I tried editing what I wanted directly, and I tried using EDITOR=vim bundle open albino and and editing what I wanted. Both of these did not work.

I cannot make any change开发者_Python百科s to the gem or even break it.

How do you modify a gem so that the changes will take effect.

rails reload only application's classes, not gems dependencies. if you use passenger in development, use "touch tmp/always_restart.txt", else restart application every time you do any changes in gem

The only answer I could find is to uninstall and reinstall the gem I modified it. Not an idea solution but worked for the time being.