On 10/26/06, Imobach González Sosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to package a friend's applications with as a "gem" and I facing
> a "little" problem that I don't know how to solve.
>
> The problem is that this application have a shell script that must be
> installed into "/usr/local/bin" directory. But if I include that script
> into "executables", rubygems considers that it's a ruby script (so it uses a
> wrapper). And if I don't include it into "executables", there's no link
> in "/usr/local/bin" anymore.
>
> So, how can I specify that I wanna this script into "/usr/local/bin" but it
> just a shell script and need no changes?
>
> I search in the manual but I was unable to found information about this topic.
> Any idea?
>
You actually can't do what you want. RubyGems is for installing Ruby
programs. You can't use it to install shell scripts (unless you write
them in Ruby).
Then how does the rails gem install the "rails" script in ruby/bin?
Curt
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