From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2005-03-25T22:30:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax for gem list file when hosting own rubygems repository

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 23:39:30 +0900, Richard Kilmer <rich@infoether.com> wrote:
> Well...documentation...no, but its a good idea to document.  Here is what
> you need to do in a nutshell (what kind of nut...):
> 
> You need webserver/virtual host where you can have two files in the root:
> 
> www.whatever.com/yaml
> www.whatever.com/yaml.Z
> 
> Then you place the gem files in a subdirectory:
> 
> www.whatever.com/gems/whatever.gem
> 
> If you have a set of gem files that you want to host and you want to build
> the yaml and yaml.Z file use the following code:
> 
> require 'optparse'
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'zlib'
> 
> Gem.manage_gems
> 
> class Indexer
> 
>   def initialize(directory)
>     @directory = directory
>   end
> 
>   def gem_file_list
>     Dir.glob(File.join(@directory, "*.gem"))
>   end
> 
>   def build_index
>     File.open(File.join(@directory, "yaml"), "w") do |file|
>       file.puts "--- !ruby/object:Gem::Cache"
>       file.puts "gems:"
>       gem_file_list.each do |gemfile|
>         spec = Gem::Format.from_file_by_path(gemfile).spec
>         file.puts "  #{spec.full_name}: #{spec.to_yaml.gsub(/\n/, "\n
> ")[4..-1]}"
>       end
>     end
>     build_compressed_index
>   end
> 
>   def build_compressed_index
>     File.open(File.join(@directory, "yaml.Z"), "w") do |file|
>       file.write(Zlib::Deflate.deflate(File.read(File.join(@directory,
> "yaml"))))
>     end
>   end
> end
> 
> ##
> #
> # Build index
> #
> #
> 
> Indexer.new(".").build_index
> 
> _______
> 
> If that code is to hard to extract from the email, let me know and I will
> post it.  Note that the directory that you pass in to the indexer is
> location of the gem files.  You need to chmod the yaml and yaml.Z files so
> they are readable from a web client, yada yada yada.
> 
> To use it you then do:
> 
> gem install whatever.gem --source http://www.whatever.com
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Rich
> 
> On 3/24/05 8:56 AM, "James Britt" <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
> 
> > Are there online docs for creating the YAML file needed when
> > self-hosting gems?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > James
> 
> 

At risk of stating the obvious, If you don't mind running webrick, you
can also just start up gem_server.

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