Best practice to put development dependencies in gemspec? about guides HOT 4 CLOSED

Perhaps I should have explained the reasoning behind this.

For the specs, I only want the RSpec gem to be loaded, so that's why it goes in the group rather than in the gemspec. Same goes for the Cucumber things, I only want it to be loaded when the features are ran so that's why it also goes in the Gemfile, not the gemspec.

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I have talked with Andre on the Bundler team about this just then and he recommends just like you do adding these to the gemspec. There's a couple of solid reasons for this.

1. When a user installs the gem using gem install foodie --dev then they'll get the development dependencies. Personally, I've never done this but Andre says that others do.

2. The gems will be automatically put into a development group by Bundler and so won't be loaded along with the other gems. When we run bundle exec rspec and bundle exec cucumber, these should require rspec and cucumber respectively.

I will update the gem guide tonight when I get home. Thanks for bringing up this question kef.

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Ah. I was hoping Bundler would automagically put the dev deps into a dev group of some sort, but hadn't dug around enough to find it yet. Thanks.

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This is fixed by @3876d4a.

Thanks!

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