Firebrigade + hoe?

Ruby
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I used newgem to create my ‘sparehand’ gem. The rakefile now depends
on Hoe, but it also looks like newgem creates a Rakefile such that hoe
can’t be a dependency.

I tried adding ‘hoe’ as a dependency with no luck.

Think someone could offer a little advice? It would make me really
happy to see ‘Passed’ next to my gem :slight_smile:

The rakefile is available here:
http://rubyforge.org/viewvc/sparehand/trunk/Rakefile?root=phillyonrails&view=markup

Thanks in advance,
Mat

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On 2/11/07, Mat S. [email protected] wrote:

I used newgem to create my ‘sparehand’ gem. The rakefile now depends
on Hoe, <snip…>

here is the (somewhat long) discussion that went on on this topic
recently:
http://rubyurl.com/fm5

And here is one solution:

hth,
-Harold

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On 2/10/07, Mat S. [email protected] wrote:

http://rubyforge.org/viewvc/sparehand/trunk/Rakefile?root=phillyonrails&view=markup

Thanks in advance,
Mat

Hi Mat,
Hoe automatically injects itself as a dependency.

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On 2/11/07, Chris C. [email protected] wrote:

Hi Mat,
Hoe automatically injects itself as a dependency.

In the ‘newgem’ case it doesn’t. Thanks, Harold, for that blog entry.
That summed it all up. newgem inserts a couple of lines in the
Rakefile that avoid the hoe dependency, but it still requires hoe
without a rescue block, which causes problems if you don’t have hoe
and try to test the package.

The solutions I found for firebrigade testing were twofold.

  1. Add a test/test_all.rb file that includes all the *_test.rb files.
    This allows ‘testrb test’ to actually run the test cases.
  2. Put a begin…rescue LoadError…end block around the hoe portions of
    the rake file. and include a test task that runs test_all.rb in the
    rescue block.

Based off of tinderbox_gem_build, I think this will work. We’ll see
in a little while when firebrigade proper lights up my gem.

Thanks for the help folks. I oughta start a professional blog so I
can blog about this stuff :slight_smile:
-Mat

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On 2/11/07, Mat S. [email protected] wrote:

Based off of tinderbox_gem_build, I think this will work. We’ll see
in a little while when firebrigade proper lights up my gem.

w00t! http://firebrigade.seattlerb.org/gem/show/sparehand

Thanks for the help everyone!
-Mat