[MacRuby-devel] Added new Rake task - deploy

Matt Aimonetti mattaimonetti at gmail.com
Tue Nov 11 07:11:42 PST 2008


A packaging rake task would be nice. I personally have no clue about
creating a dmg file, so having a task that does for me would be super
helpful.

- Matt

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Richard Kilmer <rich at infoether.com> wrote:

> As always, Laurent did all the hard work!
> I also wonder whether it makes sense to add 'package' or something as a
> rake task that takes the deployed .app and creates a dmg and places it
> inside of it for redistribution.  Make sense?
>
> Best,
>
> Rich
>
> On Nov 11, 2008, at 1:03 AM, Matt Aimonetti wrote:
>
> w00t, this is really really nice Rich, I can't wait to try it.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> -Matt
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Richard Kilmer <rich at infoether.com>wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I added a new rake task for HotCocoa - deploy
>>
>> To do this I also updated the Rakefile itself.  Now if you try and macrake
>> one of your existing HotCocoa projects you may see this:
>>
>> Your Rakefile needs to be updated.  Please copy the Rakefile from:
>>
>> /Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.4/usr/share/hotcocoa_template/Rakefile
>>
>> This is instructing you to replace your existing Rakefile with one
>> mentioned in the error message (be careful if you have modified it!).
>>
>> The new Rakefile is very minimal:
>>
>>        require 'hotcocoa/application_builder'
>>        require 'hotcocoa/standard_rake_tasks'
>>
>>        task :default => [:run]
>>
>> The standard tasks (clean, run, build, deploy) are now in the
>> standard_rake_tasks.rb file.  This way we can keep these tasks up to date
>> without having to update your Rakefile in the future.  All new Rakefiles
>> when you execute hotcocoa <app> will include the new Rakefile.
>>
>> The deploy task is just like the build task in that it creates
>> YourApp.app, but it additionally copies in the MacRuby framework.  This
>> should enable you to take that .app and share it with another who does not
>> have MacRuby installed.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Rich
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> MacRuby-devel mailing list
>> MacRuby-devel at lists.macosforge.org
>> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> MacRuby-devel mailing list
> MacRuby-devel at lists.macosforge.org
> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> MacRuby-devel mailing list
> MacRuby-devel at lists.macosforge.org
> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macruby-devel/attachments/20081111/198cede3/attachment.html>


More information about the MacRuby-devel mailing list