Rails - May 2008 - Is there a best practice for when an app requires a gem?

Hi there,

Is there a standard/recommended way for a Rails app to express a
dependency on a gem?  For non-rails projects, we could package as a gem
and hence use the gem spec to express dependencies.

I suppose I could do it by hand in environment.rb, but it seems like
there ought to be a cleaner way.  Am I missing something?

Thanks,

Brian Hartin
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Brian Hartin wrote:
> Is there a standard/recommended way for a Rails app to express a
> dependency on a gem?
Try this: The program emits "no such file to load -- foo"

The user responds with: sudo gem install foo

Problem solved. Just don''t go crazy and call your primary include file 
''luxury_yacht'', while your gem is called
''throat_warbler_mangrove''. Name them
the same so the error message

The rule "same thing same name" is a very important tenant of lean and
clean
programming.

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   Phlip


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On 1 May 2008, at 03:17, Brian Hartin wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Is there a standard/recommended way for a Rails app to express a
> dependency on a gem?  For non-rails projects, we could package as a  
> gem
> and hence use the gem spec to express dependencies.
>
> I suppose I could do it by hand in environment.rb, but it seems like
> there ought to be a cleaner way.  Am I missing something?
http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/4/1/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-gem-dependencies

Fred

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