# Requiring external gems

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/requiring-external-gems/53280>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [2016 年 11 月 22 日午後 11:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requiring-external-gems/53280 "2016-11-22T23:31:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [2016 年 11 月 22 日午後 11:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requiring-external-gems/53280/1 "2016-11-22T23:31:10Z")

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For a plugin that I am writing, I would like to use some external gem files that are not present in the default discourse gemfile.

What is the standard way of doing this without being able to modify the discourse gemfile?

Also a similar question reqarding user-defined rake tasks.

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