You're right; I don't want to use rubygems in a desktop app, I don't think that is the purpose of Rubygems and is not a good use case. Rubygems is still quite useful when I want to write a quick script that uses a gem, or when I simply want to experiment with a gem in irb, which is one case for compiling gems when installed via rubygems (but perhaps not a strong case).
I am using rubygems with MacRuby for a few small projects that do not (at the moment) belong to a desktop app, and are meant to be libraries distributed as gems and/or embedded in a larger project; not unlike how control_tower is distributed as a gem, and recently the dispatch stuff also became a gem (and probably other gems that I do not know about). I think there is a question here about how MacRuby specific libraries should be built and distributed (best practices?). I've tried to create a framework in Xcode where the library is written using MacRuby, such as a ControlTower.framework, but I am an Xcode n00b so I can't figure out what I am doing wrong, and there are no templates for such an Xcode project. Looking at the macruby_deploy script, it seems that gems get copied into the embeded MacRuby framework, and so they won't get compiled with the rest of the app since macruby_deploy only compiles compiles *.rb files it finds in Contents/Resources. However, if the gems were compiled before the embedding, I think the macruby_deploy script would blindly copy the compiled files in the app bundle; so that would be another case for a rubygems plugin (but I only learned this in the last couple of hours). Though there are also good reasons to put the gem compiling logic in macruby_deploy; such as stripping out things like test scripts and gemspec files that are normally bundled in a gem. This is turning out to be a much more complicated topic than I thought it would be. lol -- Mark Rada mr...@marketcircle.com On 2011-02-19, at 3:21 PM, Matt Aimonetti wrote: > Hey Mark, I think this is an interesting concept but I would encourage you to > work on the macruby deploy tool instead. The reason why I'm saying that is > that you probably don't wantto use rubygems in a desktop app, instead you > probably want to unpack a gem and it's deps in the app you ship. > Trunk already supports this option but in a very naive way and I don't think > it compiles the gems. > > What do you think? > > - Matt > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 19, 2011, at 11:19, Mark Rada <mr...@marketcircle.com> wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> I recently wrote a small plugin for rubygems that will use the MacRuby >> compiler to compile *.rb files when you install a gem. >> >> It is usable, but very simple right now; I would like to make it more >> powerful in a few different ways and I'm not sure which would be good. >> Things I think I could do (I have not looked at the rubygems source code in >> depth yet, so I'm not sure what I am allowed to do using the proper API): >> >> - A gemspec property (e.g. spec.compile_for_macruby = true) >> - A gem command: >> gem compile nokogiri >> gem compile —remove-original-files nokogiri >> • I can’t remove the original *.rb files and leave *.rbo files by >> default because of how rubygems identifies gems (unless I modify gemspec >> files) >> - A gem install option >> gem install —compile nokogiri >> >> I’m not sure which is best, perhaps all of them will get implemented, but I >> was wondering what the communities thoughts were about compiling gems; >> especially since the gemspec option won't work if the community never uses >> it. >> >> The repo is located at https://github.com/ferrous26/rubygems-compile >> >> -- >> Mark Rada >> mr...@marketcircle.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacRuby-devel mailing list >> MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
