From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2010-09-09T13:40:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:32214] Re: merging nokogiri to ext/


On Sep 8, 2010, at 09:40 , Yusuke ENDOH wrote:

>  - "gem install nokogiri" cannot be used on environment not
>    connected to internet.

That just isn't true and I think this misunderstanding is actually part of the contention. We can ship the nokogiri gem in the tarball and the install can install the gem just like it installs everything else.

% gem install gems/nokogiri-1.4.3.1.gem

The same thing could be done for rake, faster-csv, and any other libs that aren't used by the build/test phases directly.

There is a big added benefit to this approach. We can add a post-install message that tells people that they should run:

% sudo gem update --system
% sudo gem update

(or it can run it itself if it detects a network)

That way, no matter what gets installed by ruby, the user can update and pick up additional features, security fixes (think about the number of security updates we've had for webrick), etc.