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Date:      Sat, 07 May 2005 18:30:45 +0200
From:      Jonathan Weiss <jw@innerewut.de>
To:        knu@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Ruby ports/gems in FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <427CED35.10508@innerewut.de>

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Hi!


I'm a ruby and FreeBSD user and I've made some patches to update 
ruby-mysql, ruby-fcgi and ruby-sqlite.

Further I'm working a lot with ruby-gems. The problem is, that 
installing gems is independent from the ports tree. My goal is to 
combine ruby-gems and the ports tree like done for PHP Pear or Perl CPAN.

For example I use Ruby on Rails (www.rubyonrails.com). Rails is 
distributed as a gem with gem-dependencies. I already made some ports of 
the dependencies as non-gems (that means that they install into 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/). But these ports are independant of 
ruby-gems.

You can find my patches and the already finished non-gem ports here:

http://blog.innerewut.de/articles/2005/05/06/ruby-on-rails-and-the-freebsd-ports


My first idea of combining ruby-gems and the ports tree is having ports 
like www/gem-rails. This port would depend on ruby-gems and would 
install into /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/

What do you think?


Greets,
Jonathan
-- 

Jonathan Weiss
jw@innerewut.de
http://blog.innerewut.de



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