From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-01-23T12:44:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Can we attack the 'not enough libraries' thing straight on?

Dossy (dossy@panoptic.com) wrote:
> 
> I've been thinking (okay, dreaming) of a small snippet of Ruby code that
> could turn the interactive Ruby shell (irb) into a RAA browser, much
> like CPAN.pm for Perl.  I imagined:
> 
> $ irb
> irb(main):001:0> require 'raa'
> true

why@stungun:~/cvs/yaml4r$ irb --simple-prompt
>> require 'raainstall'
=> true

> 
> irb(main):002:0> raa.install 'Foo::Bar'
> ...fetches the Foo::Bar module from RAA...
> ...installs it using setup.rb or whatever...
> 

>> RAAInstall.install( 'yaml' )
Unarchiving yamlrb-0.49.tar.gz with gnu tar
yamlrb-0.49/
yamlrb-0.49/samples/
yamlrb-0.49/samples/okayRpc-client.rb
yamlrb-0.49/samples/okayRpc-server.rb
yamlrb-0.49/samples/okayNews-validate.rb
...and so on..
=> [#<RAAInstall::Package:0x40260cc8 @depends=[], @require=nil,
      @versionModule=nil,
      @download_url="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/yaml4r/yamlrb-0.49.tar.gz",
      @version=[0, 49], @appId=nil>]

> irb(main):002:0> raa.updates
> ...displays a list of currently installed modules, their versions, and
> the latest version available according to RAA...

>> RAAInstall.showall
=> ["acl", "activeattr", "aes-rb", "aiura", ... ]

So the last one isn't exactly what you requested.. so.. come on over to
the raa-install list and tell us what you want!
[http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/narf-lib-raainstall]

More on the raa-install API itself at 
[http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?QuickGuideToRaaInstall]

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