Preprocessing ruby gems in ruby1.9

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i notice that almost all pre 1.9 gems wont compile in ruby1.9 because
of the ff error (or something like it),

: error: ‘struct RArray’ has no member named ‘len’
: error: ‘struct RArray’ has no member named ‘ptr’
…

the typical solution i do is outlined here
frozenplague.net,
and it works 100% on my case (glad hasn’t failed yet).

can this solution be handled by the rubygem preprocessor? maybe,
signal a flag of some sort, or do a best-effort processing of some
sort ?..

kind regards -botp

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On Apr 29, 2009, at 17:03, botp wrote:

can this solution be handled by the rubygem preprocessor? maybe,
signal a flag of some sort, or do a best-effort processing of some
sort ?..

You could probably write a RubyGems plugin to do it using the
pre_install hook.