From: Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@...>
Date: 2007-11-27T00:53:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating a rubygem - a story and help request

Welcome to the apparent nature of learning important Ruby libs. :)

Take a look around for some solid docs on Rails.  You probably won't
find anything outside of the RDocs, which aren't sufficient in a lot
of cases.  Though these kinds of docs are being worked on for Rails, I
think that's just the nature of the beast for other libs until someone
takes it upon themselves to create something.

I didn't realize RubyGems lacked something like that; it may be worth
creating at least a quick reference...

--Jeremy

On Nov 26, 2007 9:30 AM, Phrogz <phrogz@mac.com> wrote:
> On Nov 25, 10:01 pm, 7stud -- <bbxx789_0...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Gavin Kistner wrote:
> > > The Request
> > > Help! How do I create a gem? I know that once I do, and upload it to
> > > rubyforge, that it will magically be available to all. But first I
> > > need to create one, and...I'm stumped.
> >
> > pickaxe2, Chapter 17 has a section titled: Creating Your Own Gems.  I
> > haven't read it yet, so I don't know how helpful it is.  It's 10 pages
> > long.
>
> So it does. I'll read through that, but I maintain that Rubygems
> should not rely on a 3rd party must-buy book to document what ought to
> be described on their website.
>
>



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