I did some testing to verify that the gem still installed properly, even when rake-compiler was listed as a developer dependency.
I also did a little research to find some evidence of how others use rake-compiler to make sure my understanding was correct. This article by @tenderlove shows him specifying it as a developer dependency (see the extra_dev_deps usage in the code block of the Modifying the Rakefile section). Here is another example in the wild.
SamSaffron
commented
9 years ago
This in response to issue #5
I did some testing to verify that the gem still installed properly, even when
rake-compilerwas listed as a developer dependency.I also did a little research to find some evidence of how others use
rake-compilerto make sure my understanding was correct. This article by @tenderlove shows him specifying it as a developer dependency (see theextra_dev_depsusage in the code block of the Modifying the Rakefile section). Here is another example in the wild.