add binary to gem spec?

[Giles Bowkett]

Hi all - I want to add a Ruby script to a gem, so that users of the
gem get not just the gem itself but also a script in /opt/local/bin
that they can run which packages up some of the functionality on the
command line. Very much like s3sh in the Amazon S3 gem (gem install
aws-s3).

Any pointers to relevant docs? Couldn't find it in the Pickaxe.

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[Luis Lavena]

Hi all - I want to add a Ruby script to a gem, so that users of the
gem get not just the gem itself but also a script in /opt/local/bin
that they can run which packages up some of the functionality on the
command line. Very much like s3sh in the Amazon S3 gem (gem install
aws-s3).

Any pointers to relevant docs? Couldn't find it in the Pickaxe.

http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/20#executables

 

[Giles Bowkett]

Any pointers to relevant docs? Couldn't find it in the Pickaxe.

http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/20#executables

Awesome! Thank you.

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[Jeremy McAnally]

Why not just use something like newgem or hoe to build your gem that
will handle this sort of stuff for you?

--Jeremy

Hi all - I want to add a Ruby script to a gem, so that users of the
gem get not just the gem itself but also a script in /opt/local/bin
that they can run which packages up some of the functionality on the
command line. Very much like s3sh in the Amazon S3 gem (gem install
aws-s3).

Any pointers to relevant docs? Couldn't find it in the Pickaxe.

--
Giles Bowkett

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Blog: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
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[Luis Lavena]

Why not just use something like newgem or hoe to build your gem that
will handle this sort of stuff for you?

Because at the end of the day, you outsource all the core of getting
things working to external tools.

What happen if they are broken? How can you get the picture and maybe
provide a patch to fix the "misbehaving" function?

Having the understanding to do it helps more than letting "magic
happens" for you all the time.

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Multimedia systems
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[Giles Bowkett]

Why not just use something like newgem or hoe to build your gem that

Because at the end of the day, you outsource all the core of getting
things working to external tools.

What happen if they are broken? How can you get the picture and maybe
provide a patch to fix the "misbehaving" function?

Having the understanding to do it helps more than letting "magic
happens" for you all the time.

I agree with that, but I used Hoe to generate the file structure. I
think I got to a point where Hoe stopped being obvious, and then I
thought, well, if I have to learn something, it's probably faster to
learn Gems.

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Giles Bowkett

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