# Using "custom" ruby gems

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [April 26, 2022, 1:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-custom-ruby-gems/225274 "2022-04-26T01:22:38Z")\
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A local version of the git repo (note: cannot be a submodule, has to be a true local copy) and the libdir inclusion lines worked perfectly! Thank you so much for your help, it’s incredibly appreciated @fzngagan and @merefield 👍

Hopefully this topic will help others find this answer, it’s been quite the journey to figure this out 😄

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