From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2007-12-28T18:52:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Using hoe to create gems with C extensions


On Dec 28, 2007, at 00:09 , Dido Sevilla wrote:

> As far as I can tell, Hoe by itself doesn't have anything available to
> facilitate the creation of gems that contain C extensions. Of the gems
> that I have installed which do have extensions, none of them seem to
> also use hoe, so I don't really have any examples to go by. Any
> suggestions for best practice when doing this sort of thing?

Hoe just sits on top of rake and generates your gemspec (and a bunch  
of tasks). There isn't really anything for hoe to do for extensions  
(tho suggestions are welcome). So, almost the same way you'd do it via  
a plain gem:

   Hoe.new('blah', Blah::VERSION) do |p|
     p.spec_extras[:extensions] = ["extconf.rb"] # or whatever style  
extension
   end