ruby question

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Apr 5, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Aljaž Srebrnič wrote:

> On 02/apr/2012, at 19:20, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>> On Apr 1, 2012, at 16:16, Aljaž Srebrnič wrote:
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>>> I was trying to craft a port for the earthquake ruby gem (a CLI for twitter), but I stumbled on some puzzling things: apparently, earthquake needs ruby 1.9, why is ruby available as ruby19 and not simply ruby (whih installs the 1.8 version)? And if we go the python way, why there's no ruby-select?
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>> The ruby port should probably be renamed to / replaced_by ruby18.
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>> There should probably be a ruby-select port.
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>> The ruby portgroup would then need to be overhauled as well.
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>> I don't think anybody's worked on the ruby ports in awhile; if you're interested you should coordinate with the ruby maintainer.
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> I pinged him/her, but no response… The select stuff is quite obscure to me, however, Is there some documentation about it? I couldn't find anything in the guide or wiki… :/
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>>> Slightly related: I wanna install earthquake, but get the source using github. Just add both PortGroups and then ruby.setup first and then github.setup?
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>> Yes, the github portgroup should be able to coexist with other portgroups.
> Thanks for the info ;)
> 
> However, I took a peek in the python_select port and tried to emulate it, and quickly noticed an issue: ruby 1.8 does not provide the rake command (available as rb-rake port) but it is bundled with ruby19! I haven't the foggiest on how to implement that :/


Caveat, everything below I figured out for myself and I may be wrong, but it does seem pretty simple.

Looking at the mysql_select port I just created:

"base" includes a list of ALL that ANY mysql_select port would want to create convenient simlinks for:
/opt/local/etc/select/mysql/base

"none" is basically a pseudo mysql_select object that skips all the base items by use of the "-" placeholder:
/opt/local/etc/select/mysql/none

"mysql55" is a list of all the "base" items that the mysql55 port provides and all the items the mysql55 does not provide get the  "-" placeholder:
/opt/local/etc/select/mysql/mysql55

You can look at the files without installing anything.

cat $(port dir mysql_select)/files/* $(port dir mysql55)/files/mysql55


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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