From: Michael Gebhart <mail@...>
Date: 2005-09-04T09:56:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing a ruby application on a linux system

Hi,

rbasm is a script a developer wrote:

http://www.wikidorf.de/reintechnisch/Inhalt/RSAsmRb

It replaces each line "require 'xy' #include' with the content of the file
xy. So you can write different files, and after using rbasm you have one
big file with the complete source code.

> The standard install.rb (and also setup.rb, which is similar, IIRC)
> copies  from your bin/ dir to the standard bin dir for your ruby
> installation. On my system that is /usr/local/bin.

> So why not just put the main entry point (which can be very simple--just
> require a lib file and invoke a method) for your GUI in bin/, leave the
> libs in lib/, and let the user run setup.rb?

Yeah this is, what I wanted to do. My problem is: Normally lib/ is
installed to the ruby-dir in e.g. /usr/lib/ruby/site-ruby/1.8/. But this
directory primarily is for modules, which should be reusable for all other
ruby application. But some parts of my application don�t make sense to
be reused. E.g. the GUI Part. So I thought about splitting my program in
components:

The entry point (script with the name of the application e.g.
myapplication) in /bin

The files, that can be reused as modules in /usr/lib/ruby/site-ruby/1.8

The files, that are needed by the entry point, but shouldn�t be reused in
/usr/lib/myapplication/


But I am not sure, if this is a right way to do it. When putting all the
files in the ruby-dir also the GUI elements can be reused. This doesn�t
make any sense for me.

Greetings

Mike