Comments on: An Almost Fix for Creating RubyGems on Windows http://blog.emson.co.uk/2008/06/an-almost-fix-for-creating-rubygems-on-windows/ Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:20:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: rubygems - StartTags.com http://blog.emson.co.uk/2008/06/an-almost-fix-for-creating-rubygems-on-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-12755 rubygems - StartTags.com Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:01:50 +0000 http://blog.emson.co.uk/2008/06/an-almost-fix-for-creating-rubygems-on-windows/#comment-12755 <p>[...] /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27: ...emson... An Almost Fix for Creating RubyGems on WindowsI use both Windows and an Apple Mac and I quickly found myself having problems trying to create [...]</p> [...] /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27: …emson… An Almost Fix for Creating RubyGems on WindowsI use both Windows and an Apple Mac and I quickly found myself having problems trying to create [...]

]]> By: Gordon Thiesfeld http://blog.emson.co.uk/2008/06/an-almost-fix-for-creating-rubygems-on-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-9799 Gordon Thiesfeld Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:13:52 +0000 http://blog.emson.co.uk/2008/06/an-almost-fix-for-creating-rubygems-on-windows/#comment-9799 <p>An alternative to patching Hoe is to just set a HOME environment variable. I usually set it to be the same as %USERPROFILE% .</p> <p>Also, Hoe has a 'need_tar' attribute. Setting it to false in the Rakefile will allow you to run all the package tasks without errors. And, if you really want a tar file, you can download tar for Windows from the Gnu Win32 sourceforge project.</p> An alternative to patching Hoe is to just set a HOME environment variable. I usually set it to be the same as %USERPROFILE% .

Also, Hoe has a ‘need_tar’ attribute. Setting it to false in the Rakefile will allow you to run all the package tasks without errors. And, if you really want a tar file, you can download tar for Windows from the Gnu Win32 sourceforge project.

]]> By: Blogs From The Geeks » Blog Archive » Ruby — gemifying - Intermittent insightful nuggets http://blog.emson.co.uk/2008/06/an-almost-fix-for-creating-rubygems-on-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-9421 Blogs From The Geeks » Blog Archive » Ruby — gemifying - Intermittent insightful nuggets Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:01:03 +0000 http://blog.emson.co.uk/2008/06/an-almost-fix-for-creating-rubygems-on-windows/#comment-9421 <p>[...] You may also need to patch hoe to run on Windows. [...]</p> [...] You may also need to patch hoe to run on Windows. [...]

]]> By: Peter Mounce http://blog.emson.co.uk/2008/06/an-almost-fix-for-creating-rubygems-on-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-4302 Peter Mounce Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:11:22 +0000 http://blog.emson.co.uk/2008/06/an-almost-fix-for-creating-rubygems-on-windows/#comment-4302 <p>Thanks for this - helped me on Windows.</p> <p>In return - with cygwin installed, with tar & zip, I have no problem with packaging the gem.</p> Thanks for this – helped me on Windows.

In return – with cygwin installed, with tar & zip, I have no problem with packaging the gem.

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