.gems isn't deprecated, in fact it's the preferred way to explain what gems your app requires. "Gem Bundler is under active development, and is not recommended for production use yet." says http://docs.heroku.com/bundler
That being said, all the .gems file does is install the specified gems into your slug. See: http://docs.heroku.com/slug-compiler In order to use the gems in your application (& in rake or the console), you might have to "require 'rubygems'" and then require specific the specific gem lib, i.e. "require 'sequel'" -- then you should be able to use Sequel in your app. Bundler is a little fancier and will try to auto-require the gem. You can also tell it explicitly what file you're looking to require, i.e. "gem 'rspec', :require => 'spec'" On Aug 27, 4:37 pm, David Balatero <dbalat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not necessarily. .gems is deprecated IIRC, and only tells Heroku what to > install. > > Your Rails app has to define gems in config/environment.rb w/ config.gem > directives. > > Alternatively, switch to Bundler + Gemfile, and manage gems in one place. > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Scott LaBounty <slabou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Should the gems that are in my .gems file be available to me in the Heroku > > console? Are they available from my rakefile? > > > Thanks, > > > -- > > Scott > >http://steamcode.blogspot.com/ > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Heroku" group. > > To post to this group, send email to her...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<heroku%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to her...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
