From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-05-07T20:15:38+09:00
Subject: Re: RAA vs. RubyGems?

Hi --

On Fri, 7 May 2004, Stephen Steiner wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I'm brand new to this list and to Ruby.

Welcome!

> I'm confused as to what might be the equivalent of Perl's CPAN on Ruby.

There's no exact equivalent, in the sense of an archive that's set up
the same way CPAN is.  RAA is the general home for Ruby libraries
and applications, and RubyForge (http://rubyforge.org) is home to
a large number of projects in development.  

> I've found RAA and RubyGems but they don't seem to be integrated in any 
> way and RAA seems just to be a list of stuff that has to be downloaded 
> and installed separately.

RubyGems is still in the early/alpha releases -- hopefully integration
of all these things will happen presently.  

> Am I missing something?

You might find raa-install helpful
(http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=raainstall).  It's a
command-line tool that automates the download and install process for
RAA packages.


David

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David A. Black
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