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After attempting the distribution of a command line application via Rubygems I came to the following conclusion: Any application not intended exculsively for Ru
by avtar 13y ago
After attempting the distribution of a command line application via Rubygems I came to the following conclusion: Any application not intended exculsively for Rubyists should not be distributed via Rubygems.
Another option could also be to convert gems (and dependency gems) to deb or rpm packages https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/wiki/ConvertingGems https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/wiki/ConvertingGems
As far as I know, the Foreman project utilizes this approach http://deb.theforeman.org/pool/precise/stable/f/foreman/ http://deb.theforeman.org/pool/precise/stable/f/foreman/
- codegangsta 13y agoThat is definitely an option, and it is essentially what we did for our linux support when we were building out a cross platform toolchain for mobile games. The tricky part was supporting Windows, Linux, and Mac all at once. Again, not suprised that distribution was hard, there were just a couple things that made distribution in Ruby a more painful experience