Manually adding a Ruby Gem

I am trying to开发者_JAVA百科 install the mechanize gem that is supposed to work with 1.9 from here: http://github.com/kemiller/mechanize but I do not know how to add it manually.

I am using Windows, I could just copy the folder to the gems directory, but how do I initialize it?

I'm not sure I understand the problem. gem install mechanize doesn't work? It produces version 0.9.3 for me, which matches the gemspec of the library you linked to.

EDIT: you're on 1.9. I knew that. Disregard my hasty post, not familiar enough with Windows to offer any help on building the extensions.

I would use the bundler gem using the command gem install bundler. This will create a file called Gemfile in your project directory where you can put your dependencies for the specific project that you are working on. In the Gemfile, you will need to specify gem mechanize. If you want a specific version include ~> VERSION after. After, run the command bundle install. This will install the gem you want and use it in your project.