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

[Matt Aimonetti]

ahh Patrick is our new savior :) I can't wait to be able to use macruby with
minigems/rubygems.

Thanks Laurent for keeping us posted.

- Matt

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Laurent Sansonetti
<lsansonetti at apple.com>wrote:

> Excellent work Eloy, I look forward to using it :-) You should definitely
> write in the README file how to manually produce the µ character though :-)
>
> As an aside, Patrick Thomson, our new Core OS intern, started to work on
> the new IO subsystem, which should theoretically fix the IO problems that
> RubyGems is affected by when trying to download and install gems.
>
> Laurent
>
>
> On Feb 9, 2009, at 12:40 AM, Eloy Duran 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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