From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-06-14T02:05:43+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems for inclusion in JRuby

On 6/12/06, Charles O Nutter <headius@headius.com> wrote:
> - Rename jruby startup scripts to 'ruby'
> (Obviously bad because it would mask a pre-existing Ruby install, so not
> high on our list)
> - Modify the installed gem scripts to invoke jruby instead of ruby
> (Not a bad suggestion, but it would only take a single gemupdate to wipe out
> our custom scripts)
> - Provide "J"-prefixed versions of the RubyGems scripts that know how to
> invoke thins correctly, e.g. jgem, jgemupdate
> (Ugly, but the most clean and compatible solution by far; the RubyGems
> scripts could then update without breaking anything, and the J-prefixed
> versions would always work. However, it creates a bunch of new scripts to
> maintain, and did I mention it's a little ugly?)

I think this is the best option. You could probably work with RubyGems
to get them to use something like Config::CONFIG["RUBY_INSTALL_NAME"].
It would also be useful if they created the .cmd scripts based on
something other than just platform. ;)

-austin
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