From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2006-08-06T18:35:06+09:00
Subject: Re: remote require


Mat Schaffer wrote:
> 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?

I'll work on that. Also, someone else wrote me and suggested sha256
instead of md5 for greater security -- good idea. I'm not sure how to
generate the equivalent sha256 output file on my ubuntu box though, all
I see is sha1sum.

T.

> -Mat