Why not include an option in the tool which allows a user to execute the chmod automatically with a single action? Explain what it will do and then let them verify that they are ok with it.
V/r Anthony On 12/28/06, Chad Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI, it looks like this is how the rubyslippers developer is getting > around the sudo problem (from his Readme): > > "On my Linux system I changed permissions on my gem directory to allow > the nonprovileged user to install gems." > > I agree that's what people should do, but i was trying to be nice to > people who don't know unix that well. Guess I should just punt, since > I have a --sudo option working from the command line, but not when > geminstaller is invoked programatically (as will be the case from a > Rails app) > > -- Chad W > > On 12/28/06, Chad Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Eloy, > > > > I've done this in my GemInstaller project: > > http://rubyforge.org/projects/geminstaller/ > > > > This is almost ready for release. I didn't know about rubyslippers > > until now, I'm going to look at it, because I've run into a few > > hitches. Maybe it will give me some ideas. The biggest problems I've > > run into are: > > > > * There's no really cohesive API for RubyGems. Whether you use the > > command line or the api, you have to do parsing out text and acting on > > it (parsing versions/platforms/etc). If you want to use it > > programatically, you have to hit a few classes. I've got proxies for > > GemRunner and SourceIndex, and some mixin hacks for StreamUI so I can > > intercept stdin and stdout. > > > > * Specifying platforms for multiplatform gems. Currently, there is no > > way to specify platform via a command line option or API. It's > > hardcoded to always present a list if theres a binary (non-ruby) gem, > > and ask for the user to make a choice via stdin (which I had to work > > around with the mixin hacks for StreamUI). There is talk of changing > > this, but the developers want to gather data on what platforms people > > use first. I'd really like to just get a command line option for > > platform added ASAP - hint hint :) > > > > * Dealing with sudo. This is currently my only remaining blocker for > > releasing geminstaller. Must people have rubygems installed as root, > > so commands that modify the gem repository must be run via sudo. I > > would like to have a command line option --sudo which uses sudo to run > > gems, but this doesn't work if you are calling into the API > > programatically. On the other hand, I could use the command line > > interface, but this is also tricky in ruby, to properly deal with > > stderr, stdin, and timeouts if the gem command is expecting different > > stdin than you think it is. Also, if you use the command line, you > > have to parse errors out of stdout/stderr as opposed to just catching > > exceptions. If anyone has ideas here, please let me know. > > > > Like I said, I'll look into RubySlippers and see if it gives me any > > ideas to deal with these problems. Please feel free to contact me > > directly if you'd like to collaborate, I'm thewoolleyman at gmail.com. > > > > Thanks, > > -- Chad W. > > > > On 12/28/06, Eloy Duran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm trying to create an Mac OS X interface to rubygems which should > > > be part of an RubyCocoa IDE. > > > I've looked at another application (rubyslippers) which has a GUI for > > > rubygems, > > > but it seems to me that it just uses the 'gem' command line tool. > > > Which is an option, but I would prefer to be able to use some public Gem > > > api > > > if available. > > > > > > Right now I did some testing with the internals of rubygems like: > > > > > > <code> > > > require 'rubygems/remote_installer' > > > require 'yaml' > > > > > > query = 'event' > > > result = Gem::RemoteInstaller.new().search(query) > > > </code> > > > > > > which returns an array of gems that have 'event' in their name, > > > but it doesn't for instance group them like the results shown on the > > > command line. > > > So for a gem like 'eventmachine' instead of 1 result with multiple > > > versions > > > I would get multiple 'eventmachine' results for the different versions > > > available. > > > Also it only searches based on the title of the gem, not the > > > description... > > > > > > So to wrap it up, I could of course revert to wrapping the 'gem' > > > command line tool, > > > and maybe even scraping the rubyforge.org search results page > > > (because it also searches on the description). > > > But I rather wouldn't. Could someone tell me if such an interface > > > exists and maybe > > > point me to some documentation or an example?? > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > Eloy > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Rubygems-developers mailing list > > > Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rubygems-developers mailing list > Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers > -- Cell: 808 782-5046 Current Location: Melbourne, FL _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
