Wes, "Development" means development of Merb itself. It should not have impacted you, but a bug in Rubygems (which will be fixed in their next release) caused problems. In the meantime, we're removing the dependency from 0.9.7, which will be released in the next day or so to resolve this issue and a few others that cropped up.
-- Yehuda On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Wesley Majere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Yehuda, > > Thanks for the response. From the feedback it seems that those who are > deploying under JRuby are using MRI ruby for development. In my environment > I would find it beneficial and quite useful if I could use JRuby for my > development and deployment. > > Is there a way to make the dependency upon native gems like libxml-ruby for > merb-gen not required when running under JRuby? Or alternatively using a > more portable library that is usable under both MRI and JRuby? What are the > caveats when following Viktors recommendation? > > > Thanks, > Wes > > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Yehuda Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Wes, >> >> Apologies about the dependency. When I added it, I thought it had been >> added as a development dependency (which seems to be the case). I wonder if >> there's a rubygems bug about inherited dependencies? >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> -- Yehuda >> >> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sep 7, 3:04 pm, Viktors Rotanovs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > Dick Davies wrote: >>> > > Does anyone have any tips for getting merb (0.9.5) to run on JRuby >>> (1.1.4)? >>> > >>> > > My current showstopper (there's been a few) is that merb (merb-gen >>> at least) >>> > > needs libxml-ruby, which is a native gem. >>> > >>> > Remove dependency while installing from source: >>> > 1) git clone git://github.com/wycats/merb-core.git >>> > 2) git checkout tags/v0.9.5 >>> > 3) in Rakefile, comment out the following line: >>> > s.add_development_dependency "libxml-ruby" >>> > >>> > Hope that helps. >>> > >>> > -- viktors |http://rotanovs.com >>> >>> >>> Thanks for posting on how to work around the issue. However it's >>> unfortunate that "out of the box" merb has a dependency which renders >>> installation cumbersome under JRuby. What are the reasons for the >>> dependency upon libxml-ruby and can this be changed to something that >>> works under JRuby? >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Wes >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Yehuda Katz >> Developer | Engine Yard >> (ph) 718.877.1325 >> >> >> > > > > -- Yehuda Katz Developer | Engine Yard (ph) 718.877.1325 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
