From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2005-04-18T00:26:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Binary not executing using RubyGems

On 4/17/05, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> I created a Ruby Gem for one of my projects.  I managed to get
> everything working okay (it wasn't as easy as I would have liked),

What was difficult about it?

> 
>   autorequire: reap/reap
>   default_executable: reap
>   bindir: bin
>   executables:
>     - reap
> 
> The file 'bin/reap' is included in the files list.
> 
> When I actualy type 'reap' on the commandline it simple does nothing.
> No error, no nothing.
> 
> Any suggestions?

The script wrappers don't work with "if __FILE__ == $0" blocks,
because they use "load" to execute the script.  Since you're probably
not ever going to use 'require "bin/reap"', you could take the if
condition out and it would work.

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