Segment7: RubyGems in Rubinius

RubyGems in Rubinius

drbrain@segment7.net (Eric Hodel) — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:58:00 -0800

Last night I checked an improved version of Zlib into Rubinius, and now gems can be installed:

$ ~/Links/RUBINIUS/shotgun/rubinius \
    -Ilib bin/gem install rake --no-ri --no-rdoc -i ~/tmp/rbxgems
Successfully installed rake-0.8.1
1 gem installed

$ GEM_HOME=~/tmp/rbxgems ~/Links/RUBINIUS/shotgun/rubinius \
    -Ilib ~/tmp/rbxgems/bin/rake --help
rake [-f rakefile] {options} targets...

Options are ...
[...]

Building the ri and RDoc information doesn't work correctly yet on Rubinius, but Rubinius is now using RDoc to generate some documentation, particularly the VM opcode information (run `rake doc:vm` in a Rubinius checkout).

Next I'm going to work on the RDoc/ri end of things some more, including improving or importing more documentation into Rubinius, and make a release of my recent RDoc changes.

"RubyGems in Rubinius" by Phil

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:26:07 -0800

Great! Can’t wait to get hacking with this. I wonder how far off Mongrel is now…

"RubyGems in Rubinius" by Michael Klishin

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:51:02 -0800

Eric,

This open a whole new world of interest for Rubinius I think. Because now things can be tested so easily. Thanks for you efforts.

"RubyGems in Rubinius" by Jacek Becela

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:56:00 -0800

That’s great. Makes me want to run rake doc:vm and try to grasp some of the knowledge sitting around parsers/compilers, etc. Or I will hack some inverted-t fire in asm ;)