[MacRuby-devel] ruby gems just for MacRuby

[Dr Nic Williams]

You can give each gem a platform scope. Windows-only gems are the most
common incarnation of this.

There is an OS X-only gem "ghost" (http://github.com/bjeanes/ghost/tree/master):

  ~ : sudo gem install ghost
  Password:
  Successfully installed ghost-0.1.2-universal-darwin-9


Mongrel is a great example of distributing gems for different
platforms (unix, windows, java - see
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1306)

Look inside their gemspec/hoe config for how they do this.

MacRuby's gem command could be hard-wired to only pull down macruby
gems of some sort.

This is all I know without doing more investigation.

Cheers
Nic


On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Matt Aimonetti <mattaimonetti at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nic,
>
>  Any suggestions to deal with macruby only gems? I don't think macruby can
> be considered a platform so any suggestions?
>
> - Matt
>
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Dr Nic Williams <drnicwilliams at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Matt Aimonetti <mattaimonetti at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Sorry Rich, but I personally only target intel processors. I don't think
>> > MacRuby will ever officially support non-intel machines.
>>
>> You never know when Steve Jobs will get up on stage and excitedly tell
>> the Faithful that the next generation Macs will be on XYZ processor
>> (because he got a better profit margin from them).
>>
>> Processor type isn't sacred afaik.
>>
>> Nic
>>
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