From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-11-08T01:31:15+09:00
Subject: Re: OS X gems do not appear in install list (Leopard)

On Nov 7, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Julian Raschke wrote:

>> I'm betting that the gem needs to be built as a "Universal Binary" to
>> work with Leopard's built-in Ruby.  Or something similar.
>
> It is a precompiled Universal Binary (built with SWIG and Xcode), and
> works as expected when installed. I'd guess gem doesn't even check the
> binary format, or the platform string, because it shows all the win32
> gems.

OK, this proves I had no idea what I was talking about.  ;)

> Do you know any precompiled binary gems that I could take a look at to
> check for differences?

Good question.  No, I don't.

Perhaps this is a good discussion for the RubyGems mailing list?

James Edward Gray II