From: Jeremy Henty <onepoint@...>
Date: 2008-12-18T04:02:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: HOWTO: install a gem using rake?

On 2008-12-17, Aldric Giacomoni <"aldric[remove]"@trevoke.net> wrote:
> Jeremy Henty wrote:
>> I use 'sh "gem install ..."'  and I'm worried about how portable it
>> is.
>>   
> Surrounding a command with backticks sends it out to the OS.
> e.g. `ping localhost`

Sorry, I  didn't make it  clear that this  "sh" is a Rake  method that
does  (I  imagine) pretty  much  the  same  thing as  backticks.   The
Rakefiles  of  other gems  often  use  more complicated  constructions
involving Gem::RUBY etc.  and I wonder  if this is to make things more
portable.  Sadly I  can't Google up anything that  says "the right way
to do  it is  ...  and here's  why".  It  seems that most  people bake
their own  solution without giving their reasons.   Unless I'm missing
something, of course.

Regards, 

Jeremy Henty