Three months ago I forked a github repository for a rubygem and added some features. A fair number of people configured their Rails app to load that gem from my github repository. Yesterday the author merged my work and released a new gem.
I would like to notify people who are continuing to pull from my github repo that they should switch back to the main gem.
I tried adding a 'post_install_message' to my version of the gemspec, but bundler apparently won't use that for gems loaded from paths or github.
I could modify the code to print a warning to the log file, but that feels messy.
I could just update the README, but that assumes people would actually read it on github.com.
Wondering if there is a good/standard/preferred method for this sort of thing?
EDIT: Well, this bugged me enough I submitted a pull request to add this functionality to bundler for gems included via :git or :path. We'll see what happens :)
UPDATE: Yay! https://github.com/bundler/bundler/commit/f876162b3d067ba5a3522b60e75cf13a19124f9c