[MacRuby-devel] Who wants to install gems anyways?! Introducing MicroGem

Matt Aimonetti mattaimonetti at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 01:11:47 PST 2009


it looks like a very interesting project but may I suggest you drop the µ
letter that most of us probably don't know how to type :(  Sticking to ASCII
might be better.

- Matt



On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Eloy Duran <eloy.de.enige at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As most people know installing gems on MacRuby still fails for most gems.
> I was getting so annoyed looking through the source of RubyGems
> that I decided to write a clean room implementation of it.
> For now it only does installing, but was the only goal since that's what
> fails on MacRuby.
> It might try to do more to replace RubyGems in the future,
> discussion/patches are all welcome.
> For instance, I'm gonna use it do gem vendoring in Rucola.
>
> Anyways, to the real interesting part of this mail :-)
> I was actually gonna wait with a first release until MicroGem was able to
> bootstrap itself
> and install, but I haven't had time for that yet. So for now follow these
> instructions:
>
> Get source:
>  $ git clone git://github.com/alloy/microgem.git
>  $ cd microgem
>
> Install the remote gem:
>  $ sudo env PRODUCTION=true macruby ./bin/µgem install alloy-microgem
> --simple --debug
>
> Then to install a gem:
>  $ sudo macµgem install mocha --simple
>
> For more information see: http://github.com/alloy/microgem/tree/master
>
> Looking forward to reactions.
>
> Cheers,
> Eloy
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