Ruby compactor/consolidator?

Ruby
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Is there a built-in or common way to consolidate a ruby project into one
file?

I’ve got a project of 8-10 files (one class per file & a script that
use the classes). For ease of distributing it to my servers, I’ve got
a secondary script that consolidates all of them to one big ugly
script.

While the script to consolidate the project does does work well enough
for now, I can easily see it may not in the future.

Thanks
–Kyle

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2009/4/8 Kyle S. [email protected]

Is there a built-in or common way to consolidate a ruby project into one
file?

cat find . -name '*.rb' > all.rb

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2009/4/8 James C. [email protected]

2009/4/8 Kyle S. [email protected]

Is there a built-in or common way to consolidate a ruby project into one
file?

cat find . -name '*.rb' > all.rb

My apologies, that was kind of a silly answer. Best idea is to package
it as
a gem. I use hoe for this, for which there is an excellent tutorial:

http://nubyonrails.com/articles/tutorial-publishing-rubygems-with-hoe

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On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:28 AM, James C. [email protected]
wrote:

cat find . -name '*.rb' > all.rb

Did you get that from the new O’Reilly book, “Mastering cat”? :wink:

For some reason I never even thought of doing it as a gem. Although
I’m not sure gem works by default on CentOS… I’ll have to see.

Thanks
–Kyle

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Kyle S. wrote:

Is there a built-in or common way to consolidate a ruby project into one file?

Might be helpful:

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/darb

(Doesn’t package binary extensions, though, only ruby source.)

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2009/4/8 Kyle S. [email protected]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:28 AM, James C. [email protected]
wrote:

cat find . -name '*.rb' > all.rb

Did you get that from the new O’Reilly book, “Mastering cat”? :wink:
Interview with the author of “Mastering cat” [satire] - Shlomi Fish’s Homesite

Hey, it’s worth knowing your cat… although I really wish someone
actually
would publish that book, I’d love to see how much mileage they could eke
out
of it.

I slightly more robust thing to do would be to list all the files in a
config file e.g. Manifest.txt, since order can be important, then write
a
build take in your Rakefile:

task :build do
files = File.read(‘Manifest.txt’).strip.split(/\s+/)
code = files.map(&File.method(:read)) * “\n\n”
File.open(‘build.rb’, ‘wb’) { |f| f.write(code) }
end