Have you looked at http://gembundler.com/man/bundle-config.1.html ?
That has helped me in the past to manage platform-specific build instructions - however not sure at this stage how it might work for the scenario you describe, if at all. Just a thought as they say =) Regards, Gus On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Mike Bailey <m...@bailey.net.au> wrote: > It's annoying when you run 'bundle' only to have it fail because required > packages for nokogiri or mysql2 are missing. > > I'd like to provide hints in my Gemfile to avoid the need to lookup which > packages need to be installed each time. > > The natural progression would be to add a rake task that installs these > packages. > > Who has already done this? What format are you using to store package hint? > > - Mike > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- For the latest research and freshest thinking from Australia, go to: http://www.theconversation.edu.au -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.