Libguestfs - Jul 2014 - IRC question: Ruby gems

18:24 < cknapp> rwmjones: is the RPM the best way to grab the guestfs gem?

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We currently ship the Ruby bindings as an extension in the ruby/
subdirectory of the source tarball.  (Note that because the extension
is mostly generated during the build, you will have to download the
tarball from http://libguestfs.org/download/ which contains the
generated bits; or, much less conveniently, you will have to do a full
build from git).

So there is no gem as such.  In particular there is nothing on
rubygems.org.

However it should be possible to take the ruby/ subdirectory and turn
it into a gem with minimal effort, since it is already in mostly the
right format.  In particular, see the Gem::Specification section in
ruby/Rakefile.

I don't know how the gem relates to the Fedora RPM.  Possibly not at
all.

Rich.

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On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 07:02:21PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones
wrote:
> 
>   18:24 < cknapp> rwmjones: is the RPM the best way to grab the
guestfs gem?
Maybe another way to read this question is: Is the RPM [or Debian
package] the best way to use guestfs with Ruby?  In which case the
answer is yes.

See also:

http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-ruby.3.html

Rich.

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