From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-10-10T03:46:52+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] SqlStatement 1.0.0 - hide the syntax of SQL behind familiar ruby syntax

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Ken Bloom wrote:

> I've got an example.rb file in the gem (in bin/). I wasn't sure where the
> best place was to put it in the gem, so if you know of another more
> visible place (where it won't get documented like it's part of the
> library), I'll happily move it there.
>
> --Ken

here's the gemspec i use.  it's for directories named 'libname-x.x.x', but you
can ignore that part if you wish.


   ~: > cat a.rb
   lib, version = File::basename(File::dirname(File::expand_path(__FILE__))).split %r/-/, 2

   require 'rubygems'

   Gem::Specification::new do |spec|
     spec.name = lib
     spec.version = version
     spec.platform = Gem::Platform::RUBY
     spec.summary = lib

#
# the important part
#
     spec.files = Dir::glob "**/**"
     spec.executables = Dir::glob("bin/*").map{|exe| File::basename exe}

     spec.require_path = "lib"
     spec.autorequire = lib

     spec.has_rdoc = File::exist? "doc"
     spec.test_suite_file = "test/#{ lib }.rb" if File::directory? "test"

     spec.author = "Ara T. Howard"
     spec.email = "ara.t.howard@noaa.gov"
     spec.homepage = "http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/#{ lib }/"
   end


so, this just grabs everything.  then you can make a dir called samples/,
examples/, or whatever and it gets included.

regards.

-a
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