Export gem in single file

Ruby
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I have following task - create single file from gem for executing it on
dedicated server. I have implemented recursive walk of files tree. Main
problem that order of files list i extracted from gem is wrong, i.e

require “/simple_record/attributes”
require “/simple_record/active_sdb”
require “/simple_record/callbacks”

but when i’m trying to merge these files into one in this precedence on
file load i’m receiving NameError due to wrong files order.Any ideas how
i could get proper list of gem files or make dependency graph, or export
gem in single huge file?

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On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:30 AM, Roman K. [email protected]
wrote:

i could get proper list of gem files or make dependency graph, or export
gem in single huge file?

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Did you mean to have a leading slash on your require statement? That
implies
you installed it in your root dir (which is probably not a good place
for
it), I’d personally let Rubygems handle installation and location of
gems,
in fact I did, and when I ran your code (on 1.9.1) I didn’t get any
errors.

But, to answer your question, looking at the gem, you can just require
the
lib and it will require all those files for you:

So you could just replace your three lines with:
require(“simple_record”)
which also worked for me.

This is a fairly common convention, you can check out the gem’s source
code
with $ gem open simple_record (you’ll first need to $ gem install gem-open)