Seth, hang on, bit slow here. Do you mean I can unpack the gems into the same directory as my rb script, and then use the Shoes Packager to create an exe for the whole directory and everything will be hunkydory?
If so. Brilliant. Cheers, Si On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Seth Thomas Rasmussen < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Simon Heywood > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Where I work we use a pac file to determine the http proxy, which can > vary > > by location. HTTP_PROXY is not defined by default. Thus I have a slight > > problem in distributing my app internally as it requires people to look > at > > the pac file and set HTTP_PROXY manually depending on their location. > > **However**, the only reason I need HTTP_PROXY to be set is so that I can > do > > ===== > > Shoes.setup do > > gem 'hoe' > > gem 'mechanize' > > end > > ===== > > So, I wondered, as an alternative, if it would be possible for the > Packager > > to "Include required gems with app" along the lines of the "Include Shoes > > with your app"? > > However, I think platform specific gems might cause a problem here? > > It could be nice to automate this. In the meantime you can `gem > unpack` into your project directory and just use require instead of > Shoes.setup. > > -- > Seth Thomas Rasmussen > http://greatseth.com >
