如何整理gemspec文件

Question

When building new gems I like to run the command gem build app.gemspec instead of rake build because I get extra warnings, kind of lint for my gem specification.

However both commands have the problem that they actually generate in gem file and that is something that I never want, since I use my gems by referencing either their repository or path from other projects inside the Gemfile of those other projects.

Is there a way to lint / test my gemspec files like gem build does without actually generating the final gem? gem build does not support the --dry-run command

Answer 1

Is 'gem check' what you are looking for? There are a variety of options, including --dry-run

http://guides.rubygems.org/command-reference/#gem-check