gem bootstrap: Working Directory's Template Directory Not Loaded

[sshaw]

From the docs:

Templates in the first existing one of these directories will always be used to create additional files:

./.gem-release/default (local)
~/.gem-release/default (global)

But:

~/code/ruby >gem list gem-release

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

gem-release (2.1.1)
~/code/ruby >tree ./.gem-release/
./.gem-release/
└── default
    ├── foo.txt
    └── gemspec

1 directory, 2 files
~/code/ruby >ll -d ~/.gem-release
ls: /Users/sshaw/.gem-release: No such file or directory
~/code/ruby >gem bootstrap testing

Scaffolding gem testing
Creating .gitignore
Creating Gemfile
<snip output>
~/code/ruby >tree testing/
testing/
├── Gemfile
├── LICENSE.md
├── lib
│   ├── testing
│   │   └── version.rb
│   └── testing.rb
└── testing.gemspec

No foo.txt and my gemspec template was not used.

Works fine when the directory is at ~.

[PikachuEXE]

It seems like the files need to be in the target folder
So if you want gem bootstrap testing to use custom template
Place them in /code/ruby/testing/.gem-release

[sshaw]

It seems like the files need to be in the target folder
So if you want gem bootstrap testing to use custom template
Place them in /code/ruby/testing/.gem-release

From a usage point of view this does not make much sense:

1. I'm trying to create a new gem so the directory does not exists
2. Anything in the gem bootstrap target directory gets added to a git repo

The use case where it exists in a parent directory makes more sense, for example if you have directory for work related code, you don't want to use ~/.gem-release.

[PikachuEXE]

You are gonna have to ask @svenfuchs to see what he thinks

[sroller]

I have the same problem. I was trying for quite some time to make it work. I'm glad I found it's not me. I guess I have to ask Claude.ai to write it for me :-).