thwarted/gem2deb
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Takes a URL to a .gem or tar'ed gem and does the brute force work of converting it to a .deb package
4 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2009-05-22 · latest 2011-01-04
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Do you know about gem2deb ? https://github.com/thwarted/gem2deb 'Takes a URL to a .gem or tar'ed gem and does the brute force work of converting it to a .deb package'
comment by huitseeker · 2011-01-04 · in Matz: I use Debian, I have no Ruby problems. -
…a while ago that seems to handle the 90% case. It was a bear to figure out. Please fork and improve. http://github.com/thwarted/gem2deb
comment by thwarted · 2010-09-28 · in Making Debian Responsible For Its Actions -
…sometimes need to fake it (admittedly, I have not installed ruby libs in a while, but I had to make http://github.com/thwarted/gem2deb to make this mildly more manageable, but that's still only a 90% solution and that last 10% is…
comment by thwarted · 2010-07-03 · in Bento, a pythonic packaging solution for Python software -
…that there seems to be some work in this area. gem2deb - a gem to a *.deb (Debian/Ubuntu) package http://github.com/thwarted/gem2deb/tree/master (and for rpm's) http://rubyforge.org/projects/gem2rpm/ a repo for rhel/deb/others…
comment by dwright · 2009-05-22 · in RubyGem is from Mars, AptGet is from Venus