GitHub - oneclick/devkit-gem: PoC - RubyInstaller's DevKit as gem

Proof-of-Concept of simpler RubyInstaller's DevKit activation and detection mechanism.

It aims to replace current approach of dealing with DevKit installation and replace by a RubyGems plugin.

IMPORTANT

This project is not 100% functional, it implements some of the ideas mentioned in RubyInstaller's mailing list:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rubyinstaller/fZAmPSlz4zM/discussion

Please see the TODO list of things to be completed before this project can be considered ready.

TODO

Add basic devkit.rb
Add RubyGems plugin hook
Reorganize classes and introduce specs to activation and detection
Download, verify and extract DevKit (perhaps bundle 7za?)
devkit.yml generator
CLI

Internals

The following describes a bit the internal classes of this gem:

# obtain list of possible places for DevKit installation
DevKit.candidates
# => ["C:/Ruby200-x64/DevKit", "C:/ProgramData/RubyInstaller/DevKit/mingw64-64-4.7.2"]

# determine real availability (using checks and binaries listed in devkit.yml)
path = DevKit.available.first
# => "C:/ProgramData/RubyInstaller/DevKit/mingw64-64-4.7.2"

# activate the DevKit in path
activator = DevKit::Activator.new(path)
# => #<DevKit::Activator:0x0000000313e860 .... @info_file=#<struct DevKit::InfoFile root="C:/Ruby200-x64">, @path="C:/ProgramData/RubyInstaller/DevKit/mingw64-64-4.7.2">

a.activate!
# => true

a.activated?
# => true

Installation

Use RubyGems to install the gem:

gem install rubyinstaller-devkit

And then verify your DevKit installation:

Usage

TODO: Write usage instructions here

Contributing

Fork it ( https://github.com/oneclick/devkit-gem/fork )
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create a new Pull Request