On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 9:48 PM, _why <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 02:49:18PM -0700, Seth Thomas Rasmussen wrote: >> After thinking about this and working on it more, I feel that if Shoes >> is to support installation of gems for its apps, it would be simplest >> if hpricot and sqlite3-ruby were installed using gems rather than >> bunbled as special extra libs of Shoes' Ruby distro. I don't mean to >> say that they would not be there by default, just that their >> installation would be a part of any Shoes app's gem awareness. > > I don't have a good answer for you yet. I wish RubyGems would honor > libraries installed through traditional techniques. But, like you > say, I suppose I could have two directories inside the gem > awareness. Both ~/.shoes/+gem and /usr/lib/shoes/ruby/gems, roughly > speaking. > > Either that or somehow tell RubyGems (programmatically) that > hpricot and sqlite3 are already loaded. I might prefer that.
That answer is just fine, why, thank you. It at least helps support the notion that there is not some unique problem to my setup. I'll continue playing with this stuff and report back if I have success. -- Seth Thomas Rasmussen http://greatseth.com
