How can I specify a gem to pull from a private github repository?

Question

I have a private repository on Github that I want to use. I deploy my app to Heroku. How can I specify a private repository as the source on my gemfile? I imagine it wouldn\

Answer 1

In addition to @seth-bro's answer, we can also use bundle config to configure the credentials using bundler, so that we need not expose the oAuth token on the Gemfile.

Syntax: bundle config github.com

Refer: https://gist.github.com/sebboh/f1dfe4f096746c45f3e9ea06a09743a0 https://bundler.io/v1.16/bundle_config.html