From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2009-02-15T00:04:36+09:00
Subject: simple ruby project layout question

Trying to get up to standards, here. Reading about project layout in 
Programming Ruby (3rd ed)., where reference is made to "...some strong 
Ruby conventions, first seen in Minero Aoki�s setup.rb and later 
enshrined in the Gems system...".

One apparently expect to see in the project root a \bin, \lib, \doc, 
subdir, and quite possible a \db and \log and etc., subdirs.

My question is about the \bin subdir. I was initially puzzled. How could 
a Ruby project have a binary files subdirectory? I went snooping in some 
installed gems I have, and I found very simple launch scripts in the 
\bin subdir - so far all ruby scripts, with the first line making clear 
that Ruby is to interpret the script (I'm also just getting into Bash 
tonight). OK, that all makes sense, except for the "\bin" name.

So, in the Ruby world, \bin simply means "whatever I'm using to launch 
my program", if it's used at all, right? And "\bin" is simply an 
anachronism - has always been done that way?

t.

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