On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Joshua Peek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It looks like it will just run a build off the gem spec. No rake tasks > allow :) > > I think it would still be possible to write one that wraps up all the > components. > > If someone wants to write up such a spec, I'd be happy to try it out > on the github server.
I believe the current tasks are somewhat customized to building and publishing the gems on rubyforge. I've played a bit with modifying them to build and install gems locally, but never pushed any patch back. On GitHub, the question is if they are going to support multiple gems per project, and if so, how. The approach that makes sense to me would be to generate gems for any gemspec that is found in the project. The only problem then would be how to name the gems. Currently I think it is <user>-<repo> for the gem name, or something. This would have to be modified to take the gem name from the specification somehow, or maybe from the containing directory? There would also be the issue of handling dependencies. In a gemspec, the dependencies are specified by name. However, I'm thinking this might break with their custom naming convention of <user>-<repo>. You could get around this by custom-crafting the gemspecs to have the <user>-<repo> (or maybe <user>-<subcomponent>?) format for their dependencies, but then these gems would only be applicable to GitHub, and not really applicable to be deployed elsewhere. In other words, there'd be two gem build processes - one to get the custom gem names and dependency specifications correct for github, and another to use the plain gem names elsewhere (locally or when deploying to rubyforge). This is all speculation just off of reading the github docs and knowing how gem specs work. Have not tried anything yet, but if someone tackles it, please publish the git repo on this list, and I'll gladly review and help out as I can. -- Chad --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" 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/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
