From: XY$ <kwicher@...>
Date: 2010-04-23T07:35:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Sinatra without RubyGems

On 22 Apr, 21:22, Joel VanderWerf <joelvanderw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> XY$ wrote:
> > I wonder if it is possible to run Sinatra without useing RubyGems.
>
> Depends on what you mean. For my purposes, the answer is yes.
>
> I use gem for package management, but crown[1] to construct a
> self-contained set of lib, ext, and bin dirs so that my program can run
> without any reference to rubygems.
>
> The following command builds the self-contained dirs that contain
> everything I need for what I do with sinatra:
>
> $ crown -v mydir sequel nokogiri sinatra json thin pg
>
> All those gems are now available as ordinary libraries under mydir/.
> There's no chance that a gem update will break your code. You can check
> in the gem stuff alongside your project code so that you have a snapshot
> of exactly what libs you were using at that version.
>
> Running crown will also output something like:
>
> PATH=/home/username/project/somedir/bin
> RUBYLIB=/home/username/project/somedir/ext/json/ext:/home/username/project/somedir/lib:/home/username/project/somedir/ext
>
> You can paste this into your main app file so that it knows where to
> find the libs. Also, you can remove RUBYOPT='-rubygems' from your env.
>
> [1]http://github.com/vjoel/crown

OK
I was not precise in my question.

The web hosting service I am testing supports Ruby but not RoR or
RubyGems. I can run Ruby scripts as CGI but I wonder if I would be
able to use Sinatra.

Thanks