From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-10-18T08:55:23+09:00
Subject: Re: gem "before" and "after" filters?

On 10/17/06, Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@elpauer.org> wrote:
> I am trying to build a gem and I need to do some pre-processing (creating a
> file) before I can create my rdoc's and some cleaning (erasing that file)
> after I create it.
>
> Running something before building the gem is easy (just specify it in the
> gemspec before the Gem::Specification.new), but how do I run something
> afterwards? (writing the code at the end or after the end of the
> Gem::Specification does not work, because that code is run before the gem is
> built)

Currently, RubyGems does not allow pre/post processing in the
installation time (this is a security feature), which is when you need
to have what you're talking about to happen for local documentation.
If you're talking about official documentation, use Rake.

-austin
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