Ruby dabbler/newbie here who's not familiar with the ecosystem, so apologies if this is one of those super duh questions.
Is there a way to view all the files and/or source code installed by a gem? That is, I just ran
$ gem install sass
And the sass gem is now a part of my local system
$ gem list --local
...
sass (3.1.16, 3.1.2)
...
I want to know what the gem install
command put on my system. Is there a command I can run to see all the files installed by the gem?
After some googling, man gem
and gem help commands
, I discovered the contents
command.
$ gem contents sass
However, when I run this command with the aforementioned sass gem, I get the following results
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/test/sass/engine_test.rb
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/test/sass/functions_test.rb
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/test/sass/extend_test.rb
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/test/sass/logger_test.rb
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/test/sass/css2sass_test.rb
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/test/sass/conversion_test.rb
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/test/sass/script_test.rb
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/test/sass/util/subset_map_test.rb
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/test/sass/util/multibyte_string_scanner_test.rb
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/test/sass/callbacks_test.rb
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/test/sass/importer_test.rb
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/test/sass/scss/css_test.rb
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/test/sass/scss/scss_test.rb
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/test/sass/scss/rx_test.rb
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/test/sass/util_test.rb
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/test/sass/script_conversion_test.rb
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/test/sass/less_conversion_test.rb
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/test/sass/cache_test.rb
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/test/sass/plugin_test.rb
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/bin/sass
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/bin/sass-convert
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.16/bin/scss
However, this list seems incomplete as I know there are files in
.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/sass-3.1.2/lib/
Why does contents
not show the files from lib
?
Is it possible for a gem
installer to install files outside of the gems folder?
Is there a command that can show everything installed by a gem?