Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Bundling Gems/Embedding Rubycocoa

[Eloy D. <elo...@gm...>]

Oh and you shouldn't require rubygems anymore. It should work without
it and your app will boot much faster.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Eloy Duran<elo...@gm...> wrote:
> Ah, I forgot to add the the "lib" part of the gem path, which is
> usually the only needed search path that a gem needs. (You can check
> the gemspec of the gem to see if it needs any additional load paths.)
>
> So try something like: $:.unshift File.join(gem, 'lib')
>
> And maybe inspect the load paths with: p $:
>
> Eloy
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Ferlander
> Davids<fer...@gm...> wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply,
>> I'm still having some trouble, though. I've implemented your suggestion, but
>> the gem is still not found.
>> I think I may be off course, though, because if I require 'rubygems' before
>> I require the particular gem the app does run (only on my computer, of
>> course). So I'm afraid my app may not be pointing to the bundled gems. Sorry
>> in advance if this next thought is way off base, but does rubygems create
>> some kind of directory/path list that I might need to include?
>> Are there any other details about requiring gems that might seem obvious? I
>> am pretty inexperienced, and what's obvious to some might have gone over my
>> head.
>> Ferlander
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Eloy Duran <elo...@gm...> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> What I generally do is:
>>> * Create a vendor/gems directory
>>> * Unpack the gems into that directory
>>> * Add the directory to your xcode project as a folder reference (this
>>> means xcode will copy the dir and its contents to the Resources dir
>>> * Add the gem dirs to the load path. For instance something like this
>>> in rb_main.rb:
>>>  Dir.glob("#{File.join(NSBundle.mainBundle.resourcesPath,
>>> 'vendor/gems')}/*").each do |gem|
>>>    $:.unshift gem
>>>    require gem
>>>  end
>>>
>>> (Note that I just wrote this down and might contain slight errors.)
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Eloy
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Ferlander
>>> Davids<fer...@gm...> wrote:
>>> > I'm building an application with the intent of distributing it to people
>>> > that won't have rubycocoa installed. I believe I've successfully
>>> > included
>>> > the rubycocoa framework and the ruby runtime library, however I still
>>> > need
>>> > to include one or two gems before I'm done.
>>> > I read:
>>> > http://rubycocoa.sourceforge.net/EmbedRubyCocoa
>>> > I tried standaloneify.rb, but as far as I could tell it broke my
>>> > application.
>>> > Is there a simple way to include ruby gems? I thought maybe I could
>>> > store
>>> > them in Resources, but xcode doesn't seem to like it when I do that. I
>>> > read
>>> > that you can specify the path to modules, but does anyone have any
>>> > suggestions as to the right way to get the gems included in the
>>> > application?
>>> > I hope this is an appropriate question. I'm inexperienced.
>>> > Ferlander
>>> >
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