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sportngin / brew-gem

Install gems as homebrew formulas
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Split up brew-gem from being a single bin/file #16

Closed NickLaMuro closed 8 years ago

NickLaMuro commented 9 years ago

I think we have reached the extent that we can support brew-gem as a single file in a reasonable manner. There are no limitations in homebrew formulas that prevent us from having brew-gem installed as a bin executable and calling out to separate library files for parsing arguments, processing the installation, and using a template file for building the temp formula.

This obviously would take time to do right, but I would like to at least call out a few things that should be done when attempting to accomplish this:

  1. Tests. At a minimum, some unit tests, but possibly some integration tests via aruba or a similar framework.
  2. Split files out into their respective functions.
    • A lib for parsing arguments, probably making use of Ruby's OptionParser
    • Libs for handling searching for the gem, downloading of gem, building of the formula file, etc.
    • A separate template file for the formula.
  3. Avoid any external gem dependencies for deployment. We can make use of gems for test frameworks and such is fine, but I think trying to use external gems for the execution will be too cumbersome.
anfleene commented 9 years ago

I love this idea :+1: Lets do it.

nicksieger commented 8 years ago

Fixed by #23