From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-07-30T06:18:18+09:00
Subject: Including other people's Ruby libs in your package

I'm writing some code that depends on MIME::Types, and works better with 
(but does not depend on) BlueCloth.

I'd like to package my code as both a Gem and as a more conventional 
"install using cp" bundle.

What sort of project directory layout might work best?

Gem will go fetch dependencies, so I think I'm covered there (I can 
leave these other files out of the gem and list them as dependencies), 
but what might be some good installation techniques when not using a 
Ruby gem?

I'm thinking now of putting the third-party Ruby files into a local 
subdirectory of the installed code, and munging the load path in my 
code, prior to calling require, to add this local directory.  If the 
user already has mime/types.rb, great, the global version gets called. 
Otherwise 'require' should be able to find the copy installed in the 
relative directory.

Thoughts?


James