From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2006-05-09T03:22:13+09:00
Subject: Re: adwords4: access the Google Adwords API in ruby

Jason Clinton wrote:
>   On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 04:49 +0900, Patrick Chanezon wrote:
> 
>> It's a gem but I also provide an installer if you don't want to use ruby 
>> gems (why wouldn't you;-) 
>>
> 
> Because RubyGems is a solution to a problem that you only have when you 
> don't have a package manager. (Read: Windows). Using gems on Linux is 
> considered an evil. And the more that authors push out packages with 
> /only/ Gems support, the worse the situation gets. See here:
> 
> http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html

BTW, not sure if this as been mentioned already (if it has I missed it; 
my apologies), but the information on that page is out of date.  For 
example, there is no need for 'require_gem'; it's all 'require', with or 
without RubyGems.

Anyway, I am tending to the position that RubyGems is not used to 
install new applications (or packages) as such; it is a means for an 
application (ruby) to extend itself.




-- 
James Britt