Ruby ports/gems in FreeBSD

[Jonathan Weiss]

Hi!


I'm a ruby and FreeBSD user and I've made some patches to update 
ruby-mysql, ruby-fcgi and ruby-sqlite.

Further I'm working a lot with ruby-gems. The problem is, that 
installing gems is independent from the ports tree. My goal is to 
combine ruby-gems and the ports tree like done for PHP Pear or Perl CPAN.

For example I use Ruby on Rails (www.rubyonrails.com). Rails is 
distributed as a gem with gem-dependencies. I already made some ports of 
the dependencies as non-gems (that means that they install into 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/). But these ports are independant of 
ruby-gems.

You can find my patches and the already finished non-gem ports here:

http://blog.innerewut.de/articles/2005/05/06/ruby-on-rails-and-the-freebsd-ports


My first idea of combining ruby-gems and the ports tree is having ports 
like www/gem-rails. This port would depend on ruby-gems and would 
install into /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/

What do you think?


Greets,
Jonathan
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Jonathan Weiss
jw at innerewut.de
http://blog.innerewut.de