[Fedora-packaging] Packaging of ruby gems

[Jeremy Hinegardner]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:47:28PM -0800, David Lutterkort wrote:
> At long last, I wrote up a guideline [1] for packaging ruby gems, ruby's
> own packaging format; since almost any ruby library is packaged as a
> gem, and some of them provide no other way of installation, it becomes
> increasingly important to enable packaging of gems for Fedora. 
> 
> At the same time, it is fairly easy to automate most of this process[2],
> which hopefully means that lots of people will submit packages of ruby
> gems.
> 
> You can find some examples of ruby gems packaged as rpm's on my people
> page [3] - look for specfiles called 'rubygem-*'

I just became a packager and am very interested in making sure Fedora
and rubygems work well together.  I'll try packaging up a couple of gems
with your guidelines in the next week or so and see how it goes.  I may
have comments or suggestions afterwards.

Have you given thought to gems that are also applications?  I have an
application 'keybox' that is a gem, but it is really a command line
application, at what point would we want to draw the line between saying
package this as a rubygems-* vs. a normal package that just Requires:
ruby and maybe some rubygems-*.

Or would you rather think of rubygems-* as being packaged from the gem
and anything that was self contained be packaged from the .tgz or the
original source?

enjoy,

-jeremy

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 Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy at hinegardner.org