Easily build Portfiles from ruby gems

[Paul Guyot]

Hi all,

I wrote a script that generates a ready to use Portfile for any gem.
You can find it here:
http://www.opendarwin.org/~pguyot/gems_to_portfile.rb

The syntax is pretty simple:

./gems_to_portfile.rb gem_file.gem

or

./gems_to_portfile.rb gem_name

In both cases, it creates a new directory, rb-gem_name, with the  
Portfile in it. Please note that this portfile uses the new  
rubyforge_gem fetch syntax (available with the ruby group  
modification I just committed to the svn repository). The second  
version will download the gem in the current directory. I need the  
file to be able to compute the checksums. Besides, if several gems  
exist and some of them are binaries, it will ask you to choose a  
version (using the native gem mechanism).

This script requires gems (sudo port install rb-rubygems).

With such a script, there's no reason to continue to use gem to  
install ruby gems. Using gem may yield in inconsistencies. I know  
that most ruby tutorial around say: get ruby with darwinports, then  
use gem. But I strongly disagree. At some point, we may rename gem  
binary and put a fake one that displays a warning message.

Enjoy!

Paul
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