From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-01-31T18:24:35+09:00
Subject: Re: gem API

On Jan 30, 2008, at 20:26 PM, John Joyce wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Eric Hodel wrote:
>> On Jan 28, 2008, at 17:37 PM, John Joyce wrote:
>>> What I am doing is building a gui wrapper in Cocoa on OS X for  
>>> common gem commands.
>>> I want to later add gem install and gem uninstall, but I'm not  
>>> sure what the best way would be to handle gems that have more  
>>> involved install/uninstall processes, such as when the user is  
>>> prompted for [y/n]? input on whether to include a dependency or  
>>> something in that install/uninstall process.
>>
>> Talk to Chad Wooley.  He's writing a gem installer tool.
>>
> Ok, thanks,
> one other thing,
> I'd rather not go hacking gem, but If possible, as a feature request,
> can we have a flag that turns off the headings?

No.  If you're going to be writing a tool, use the API the  
QueryCommand uses.  If you find yourself duplicating too much, propose  
a patch to refactor into something more usable.

> From digging through gem's code it certainly looks reasonably  
> possible.
> things such as
> \n*** LOCAL GEMS ***\n\n
>
> and
> Updating metadata for 13 gems.........
>
> It would be convenient as heck to have those easily turned off by a  
> command line flag so that parsing the output is cleaner.

The RubyGems API provides for this, investigate rubygems/ 
user_interaction.rb (I think)

> How can I contact Chad Wooly?

Check the archives of the rubygems-developers list for details.