On Fri, 13 May 2005, Chad Fowler wrote:

> gem install sqlite-ruby -v 2.2.3 -- --with-sqlite-dir=3D/Users/jdf/local
>
> Uses the double dash separate similar to the old startx script with X.

thank you for that hint!  has the gem team thought about rescuing unknown opts
and just putting them back into the command line?

eg:

   begin
     op.parse! ARGV
   rescue OptionParser::InvalidOption => e
     # preverve unknown options
     e.recover ARGV
   end

and then you could

   gem install sqlite-ruby -v 2.2.3 --with-sqlite-dir=3D/Users/jdf/local

??

-a
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