From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2006-08-04T02:16:00+09:00
Subject: Re: remote require


On Aug 3, 2006, at 1:05 PM, transfire@gmail.com wrote:

> I know there are other solutions to this out there. Just wanted to
> share my work/play at it. I was trying to make it reletvely secure
> without being too much a pain to use. This is was I arrived at.
>
> Usage looks like this:
>
>   remote_source 'fruitapp',
> 'http://roll.rubyforge.org/source/fruitapp/lib/fruitapp/1.0.0/'
>   remote_dependency '9de3cd6daece5f07aa3ddb0319a21415', 'tryme.rb'
>
>   require 'fruitapp/tryme.rb'
>
> The MD5 checksum of course is there to help ensure you get what you
> expect. Of course that's the most time consuming part becasue you have
> to keep those upto date with new versions.
>
> Anyway, just thought I'd share it just in case it interested anyone.
> Here's the code:
> [snip: source sode]

I think this would make a really nice gem.  I love the idea!  Maybe a  
future revision could take a regular md5sum output file?
-Mat