On 10/26/06, Curt Hibbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/26/06, Chad Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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?
>
It's a Ruby program.
I'm a little confused then... on Windows after I do a "gem install rails" I get two new files in ruby/bin: "rails", which is a Ruby program, and " rails.cmd" which is a shell script.
Curt
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