[Rubygems-developers] Using own stub code

[Chad Fowler]

On 3/6/2004, at 7:42 PM, Michael Neumann wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 06:41:01PM -0400, Chad Fowler wrote:
>>
>> On 3/6/2004, at 9:29 AM, Michael Neumann wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I encountered a problem during gemifying a DBD (Database Driver).
>>> They are required to be installed into e.g. site_ruby/1.8/DBD/Pg for
>>> the
>>> Pg (Postgres) DBD. Maybe, I should build versioning into DBI, so 
>>> that I
>>> can write:
>>>
>>>  DBI.connect("dbi:Pg(0.1.0):db", ...)
>>>
>>> and this would
>>>
>>>  require_gem 'dbd-pg', '0.1.0'
>>>
>>> Or could I tell rubygems to install a stub as DBD/Pg/Pg.rb? Inside 
>>> the
>>> gemspec? That would be much easier.
>>
>> You should be able to have it do this if you specify DBD/Pg/Pg.rb as
>> the autorequire file.  Then you need to --install-stub during
>
> No that does not work. A DBD/Pg/Pg stub is installed with 
> --install-stub
> given. But the Pg.rb file is not loaded:
>
>   require 'dbi'
>   require_gem 'dbd-pg'
>
> Both lines return true. But I've inserted a print statement into Pg.rb,
> and it is not executed! Strange.
>

Could you possibly tar up your working directory with gemspec and put 
it somewhere I could get it?  I'd like to take a look for myself.

Thanks,
Chad