gems usage question

[Dusty Doris]

I have created a simple gem for merb that will let me run annotate
models as a rake task.  Anyway, it works fine when I install the gem
to the system.  But, when I try to install it to the gems directory I
have problems.  Is there a trick to this?

Assuming I'm in Merb.root

$ gem install ~/merb_annotate_models/pkg/merb_annotate_models-0.0.2.gem
-i gems --ignore-dependencies

It puts the files in the gems dir as it should, but it says it can't
be found when I do a simple dependency on it.  I'm assuming I'm
missing something, any hints?

Thanks