From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-06-16T01:06:45+09:00
Subject: Re: running applications installed from gems

On 6/15/06, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/15/06, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/15/06, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > What I'm really after is a simple way for a non-programmer to install
> > > and run a Ruby application that is packaged as a gem.
> > It's already done.
> >
> > Seriously. Try it with Ruwiki or Text::Hyphen. Or PDF::Writer. In
> > PDF::Writer, a stub for the executable "techbook" is installed
> > appropriately. It will run the latest version of the software by
> > default, but you can select a specific version, too.
> Sorry to be dense about this, but *how* does the user run the application?
>
> I think what you're suggesting is that the user
> 1) runs "gem install app-name"
> 2) navigates to the bin directory of the gem
> 3) runs a script found there

No.

% gem install ruwiki
% ruwiki_servlet

Or:

% gem install pdf-writer
% techbook

Or:

% gem install text-hyphen
% hyphenate example

-austin
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