Fails to install gem if it has prerelease gems in its dependencies.

[shkrt]

For example:

$ gem specific_install 'rails/rails'

or

$ gem specific_install 'https://github.com/rails/rails.git'

or

$ gem specific_install -l 'https://github.com/rails/rails.git'

results in:

$ ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::UnsatisfiableDependencyError)
    Unable to resolve dependency: 'rails (= 5.2.0.alpha)' requires 'railties (= 5.2.0.alpha)'

and if we start to install dependencies one-by-one, we also got stuck:

$ gem specific_install 'https://github.com/rails/rails.git' -d activesupport`  # -Success
$ gem list activesupport 
$ activesupport (5.2.0.alpha, 5.1.4)
$ gem specific_install 'https://github.com/rails/rails.git' -d actionview
$ ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::DependencyError)
    Unresolved dependency found during sorting - activesupport (>= 4.2.0) (requested by rails-dom-testing-2.0.3)

This is caused by the presence of prerelease gems in gem's dependencies. If we initialize Gem::DependencyInstaller with prerelease:true, then at least gem specific_install 'rails/rails' -d actionview seems to work fine. So, I think it would be convenient to add some command line flag, that will set prerelease option to true, if provided.

[rdp]

Can you think of an easy way to fix this command line wise?

[shkrt]

Will think of solving it, but I've yet to figure out the case with nested prerelease dependencies, because with Gem::DependencyInstaller.new(prerelease: true).install dep_name we can install 'rails/rails' repository step-by-step:

$ gem specific_install 'https://github.com/rails/rails.git' -d actionview

but the following

$ gem specific_install 'rails/rails'

keeps failing

[rdp]

I'm not sure if rubygems has a way to do dependencies while building a local gem unfortunately...

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On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 2:51 AM, Ruslan Gafurov ***@***.***> wrote: Will think of solving it, but I've yet to figure out the case with nested prerelease dependencies, because with Gem::DependencyInstaller.new(prerelease: true).install dep_name we can install 'rails/rails' repository step-by-step: $ gem specific_install 'https://github.com/rails/rails.git' -d actionview but the following $ gem specific_install 'rails/rails' keeps failing — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#43 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAAw0NQoqSM_Mix5CNpnxCcR1GQL8OYCks5stGp6gaJpZM4P5pwV> .

[rdp]

OK attempted to merge it, give it a try sometime :)

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On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 4:29 AM basicfeatures ***@***.***> wrote: Any news on this? Trying to gem specific_install --user-install https://github.com/rails/rails for version 7.1.0-alpha but: % gem specific_install --user-install https://github.com/rails/rails.git -d actionpack railties actionview actioncable actionmailbox actionmailer actiontext activejob activemodel activerecord activestorage activesupport git version 2.37.3 git installing from https://github.com/rails/rails.git Cloning into '/tmp/d20230204-27124-t48i9k'... remote: Enumerating objects: 820996, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (94/94), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (81/81), done. remote: Total 820996 (delta 36), reused 22 (delta 10), pack-reused 820902 Receiving objects: 100% (820996/820996), 246.70 MiB | 10.68 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (611618/611618), done. Updating files: 100% (4516/4516), done. Updated 0 paths from the index fatal: Cannot do hard reset with paths. ERROR: While executing gem ... (RuntimeError) '$ git reset --hard actionview' exited with an error /home/dev/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.1/gems/specific_install-0.3.8/lib/rubygems/commands/specific_install_command.rb:75:in `git' /home/dev/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.1/gems/specific_install-0.3.8/lib/rubygems/commands/specific_install_command.rb:249:in `reset_to_commit' /home/dev/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.1/gems/specific_install-0.3.8/lib/rubygems/commands/specific_install_command.rb:157:in `block in install_from_git' /home/dev/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.1/gems/specific_install-0.3.8/lib/rubygems/commands/specific_install_command.rb:155:in `chdir' /home/dev/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.1/gems/specific_install-0.3.8/lib/rubygems/commands/specific_install_command.rb:155:in `install_from_git' /home/dev/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.1/gems/specific_install-0.3.8/lib/rubygems/commands/specific_install_command.rb:135:in `install_git' /home/dev/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.1/gems/specific_install-0.3.8/lib/rubygems/commands/specific_install_command.rb:90:in `determine_source_and_install' /home/dev/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.1/gems/specific_install-0.3.8/lib/rubygems/commands/specific_install_command.rb:67:in `block in execute' /usr/local/lib/ruby/3.1/tmpdir.rb:96:in `mktmpdir' /home/dev/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.1/gems/specific_install-0.3.8/lib/rubygems/commands/specific_install_command.rb:59:in `execute' /usr/local/lib/ruby/3.1/rubygems/command.rb:323:in `invoke_with_build_args' /usr/local/lib/ruby/3.1/rubygems/command_manager.rb:185:in `process_args' /usr/local/lib/ruby/3.1/rubygems/command_manager.rb:149:in `run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/3.1/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:51:in `run' /usr/local/bin/gem:21:in `<main>' — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#43 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAADBUFGLTJTZXD6UXDLVVTWVY4RBANCNFSM4D7GTQKQ> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>