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

[Dr Nic Williams]

µ complete me

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Eloy Duran <eloy.de.enige at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hehehe.
> Actually this is meant as a forced way to have people _not_ think about
> ASCII too much, as I think that happens way too often :-)
> However, if there are technical problems I will rename it to, for instance,
> microgem. But until then I prefer the shorter version.
> For us on the mac the way to type this character is ALT+M, see the excellent
> Keyboard Viewer for this kind of info.
> (Which you might need to enable in System Preferences -> International ->
> Input menu)
>
> Cheers,
> Eloy
> On Feb 9, 2009, at 10:11 AM, Matt Aimonetti wrote:
>
> 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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