Roger Pack wrote:
> gem install package_name --checkout_latest_svn_trunk_and_build_it

Not everyone uses Subversion. :)

One way to achieve your request would be for you to manually check out 
the sources of your favorite project from their code repository and run 
the "gem" task in their Rakefile (most projects do).  This will build a 
gem which you can then install.
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