From: Michael Guterl <mguterl@...>
Date: 2009-10-08T01:19:15+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems woes

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Tony Arcieri <tony@medioh.com> wrote:
> We're trying to support both MRI and JRuby for a project, and have a number
> of "internal" gems our software is packaged into.
>
> What would be *great* is a means to have variadic gem dependencies, selected
> based on the current RUBY_ENGINE.  Many of the gems we need on MRI are
> irrelevant on JRuby or require JRuby-specific alternatives.
>
> Since I don't have this, I've ended up making two gem servers, one for MRI
> and one for JRuby.  I've ended up loading the JRuby server with some "dummy"
> gems which don't actually do anything but fulfill the gem dependencies for
> gems that aren't needed on JRuby.  This seems like a bit of a hack.
>
> Does anyone have a better solution for this?
>

Have you looked at rip? http://hellorip.com/about.html

Maybe you could package jruby-deps.rip and mri-deps.rip or something
similar...just a thought.

Best,
Michael Guterl