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How to distribute a Ruby application with the required gems

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The best way would probably be to just package your game as a gem as well, that way rubygems will take care of installing the dependencies. Here's the documentation explaining how to create your own gems.

sepp2k 2009-09-17 22:08:09

That's the way to do it. If you've never done it before, jeweler[1] should be of help. You can also specify your gem's dependencies in your gem's manifest.[1] - http://github.com/technicalpickles/jeweler

hgimenez 2009-09-17 23:09:34

And by the way, you can create a rake task that can install your gems. See Yehuda's answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1000749/how-to-quickly-initialize-ruby-project-development-environment/1072299#1072299

hgimenez 2009-09-18 12:11:00

That's a good point! I haven't thought about making the game as a Gem.

pschneider 2009-09-20 09:34:47

Answer 2

+3 A:

If you'd rather not package your game as a gem, you could investigate the Bundler, which will be integrated into Rails 3.

Greg Campbell 2009-09-18 00:54:21

Answer 3

+1 A:

In your environment.rb you can express your gem dependencies, eg.

  config.gem "activemerchant", :lib => "active_merchant", :version => "1.4.1"

This isn't as automatic as gem dependencies, but it certainly usable. User must sudo rake gems:install to get your app to start.

ndp 2009-09-19 06:02:50

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