From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-08-08T09:46:44+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems question: Knowing the correct name for add_dependency

Jim Weirich wrote:
> James Britt wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to write a gemspec file.  My code depends on Austin 
>> Ziegler's Mime::Types library.  I want to call to add_dependency, but 
>> I do not know what to pass as the first argument.
> 
> 
> The first argument should be the base name of the gem without version or 
> platform information ...  E.g.
> 
>  spec = Gem::Specification.new do |s|
>    ...
>    s.add_dependency('rake', ">0.4.0")
>    ...
>  end


What is the "base name" of a gem?  Given "FooBar.gem", is it "FooBar" ?

Is it something defined in that gem's gemspec file?

I looked into the gemspec for MIME::Types, but couldn't tell if I should 
use

   add_dependency( 'MIME::Types', "> 1.12" )

or

   add_dependency( 'mime-types', "> 1.12" )

Thanks,

James