Add binary to gem spec?

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 B.

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On Nov 21, 3:15 pm, Giles B. [email protected] wrote:

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

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

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

Awesome! Thank you.

–
Giles B.

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On Nov 22, 1:06 am, Jeremy McAnally [email protected] wrote:

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.

–
Luis L.
Multimedia systems

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which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that
is worthwhile.
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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.

–
Giles B.

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

–Jeremy

On Nov 21, 2007 1:15 PM, Giles B. [email protected] wrote:

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