Jeff DeanJeff Dean
 New York Standup 10/7/2008
edit Posted by Jeff Dean on Wednesday October 08, 2008 at 01:10PM

Interesting Things

When you specify a gem from a custom source, and it has dependencies on a separate source, you need to list both sources in geminstaller.yml.

This comes up when you are installing a gem from github and that gem depends on other gems from rubyforge. You can specify multiple sources by adding more --source attributes.

Comments

  1. Josh Susser Josh Susser on October 08, 2008 at 01:51PM

    Several projects have run into this issue when moving to Engine Yard. Adding the eycap gem to geminstaller.yml would cause the deploy to fail, since we were all silly noobs and only added a single --source option to the entry for eycap, so rubygems couldn't find the dependencies in rubyforge. This entry works ok though:

    - name: eycap
  install_options: "--source=http://gems.engineyard.com --source=http://gems.rubyforge.org"
  version: >= 0.3.7

    remove

  2. Chad Woolley Chad Woolley on October 30, 2008 at 08:44AM

    Adding this option to rubygems (which was Josh's idea) would solve this issue:

    --[no-]use-configured-sources, with --use-configured-sources being the default.

    Just needs to be made into a rubygems patch!

    -- Chad


    remove