On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 01:58:18PM +0900, [email protected]
wrote:
} Hello all,
}
} I’m using Ruby on Debian GNU/Linux. Ruby itself
} and its standard library were installed as Debian
} packages. Now, I want to add Ruby libraries
} which aren’t standard part of Ruby. What do
} people do? I heard of “rubygem”. Is it a packaging
} system for Ruby? How does it interact with the
} packaging system of Debian?
}
} I could just download the sources of those libraries
} and install them under ~/lib/ruby or /usr/local/lib/ruby
} or some such places. But, I guess there are better,
} more organized, and standard ways.
I spent a fair amount of time making RubyGems install properly into
/usr/local/bin on Debian and keep itself there. By default,
unfortunately,
it really wants to install gems in /usr/lib regardless of where it has
been
installed. To work around this shortcoming, I’ve developed an install
script for RubyGems. It isn’t Debian-specific, but it certainly works
well
on Debian. The script follows. PAY ATTENTION TO THE MESSAGE AT THE END!
} Regards,
} Ryo
–Greg
#!/bin/sh
if test $# -ne 1
then
echo "Usage: $0 " >&2
exit 1
elif test ! -r setup.rb
then
echo “Please run from the toplevel RubyGems source directory” >&2
exit 2
fi
GEM_HOME="$1/lib/site_ruby/gems"
export GEM_HOME
if test -d “$GEM_HOME”
then
cat <<-EOF >&2
The GEM_HOME directory already exists. Overwriting an existing
install will not work well. If you intend to reinstall, please
first remove $GEM_HOME
EOF
exit 3
elif ! mkdir -p “$GEM_HOME”
then
cat <<-EOF >&2
You do not have permission to install in the directory selected.
Perhaps you meant to install as root?
EOF
exit 4
fi
while test ! -e “$GEM_HOME/bin”
do
echo -n "Where should executables be installed [$GEM_HOME/bin]? " >&2
read dest
if test "$dest" = "" -a "$dest" = "$GEM_HOME/bin"
then
dest="$GEM_HOME/bin"
mkdir "$dest"
elif test -d "$dest"
then
ln -s "$dest" "$GEM_HOME/bin"
else
echo "You must choose an existing directory." >&2
fi
done
ruby setup.rb config --prefix="$1" --siteruby=$prefix/lib/site_ruby &&
ruby setup.rb install
cat <&2
################################################################################
Be sure to set the GEM_HOME environment variable in your shell’s
init/config file to ‘$GEM_HOME’
For Bourne shell derivatives, add the following lines to your
~/.profile or the system-wide /etc/profile:
GEM_HOME="$GEM_HOME"
export GEM_HOME
For C shell derivatives, add the following line to your ~/.cshrc
(or ~/.tcshrc) or the system-wide /etc/csh.cshrc:
setenv GEM_HOME "$GEM_HOME"
################################################################################
EOF
