From: Rein Henrichs <reinh@...>
Date: 2010-06-11T16:35:08+09:00
Subject: Re: creating a gem structure for command line program

On 2010-06-11 00:15:24 -0700, R.. Kumar said:

> I've written a command line program. Would like to distribute it as a
> gem.
> I've run jeweler <myproject> and generated a structure.
> 
> However, I am not sure how to go about it. My project consists of one
> main file (lets call it main.rb), it include a couple other files. The
> main file is executable, so when installed should go into the path (e.g.
> /opt/local/bin).
> 
> Should my main file go into "lib" or "bin"?
> 
> Looking at jeweler itself, i see a file installed in
> /opt/local/bin/jeweler that loads jeweler, it says its been generated by
> rubygems. How is this done?
> 
> I presume the support files should go into lib/<myproject>.
> 
> Also, currently I do the argument parsing (optparse) in a if __FILE__ =
> $0 block in the main file. Will this have to be moved to a method in the
> class of the main file. Or will this have to be moved to a file in bin
> folder?
> 
> thx for help.

Put your executable in bin/ and any supporting code in lib/

Rubygems will take care of distributing your executable in the way you 
mentioned, you don't have to do anything except add it to the gemspec.

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