From: ghorner <gabriel.horner@...>
Date: 2010-04-21T10:30:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposing a Ruby Packaging Standard

> I want to run the man executable (pointing it to my project's man/
> directory) from my project's executable in bin/.  With RubyGems, I can
> rely on bin/ being next to man/.  But with setup.rb I don't know how to
> find my project's man/ directory from my project's executable in bin/!
>
> Any suggestions?

Just use gem-man, http://github.com/defunkt/gem-man:

  $ gem install gem-man
  $ gem man ember

> Will it be copied into /usr/share/man/ by RubyGems/setup.rb/Rip and
> friends?

The next version of rip should handle installing man pages.