[Rubygems-developers] __FILE__ hacks -was: Re: [...] Adoption

[Patrick May]

Hello,

On Friday, October 22, 2004, at 06:45  AM, Jim Weirich wrote:

> In David HH's RubyConf talk, he mentioned that Rails promotes 
> conformity by
> making the conforming "golden" path easy and the non-conforming paths
> difficult.  I see this suggestion, along with careful selection of 
> defaults
> in the gem spec as being part of the "golden path" strategy.  If you 
> use "gem
> initialize-directory" and a very minimal gemspec, you could have a 
> working
> gem project.
>
> I think providing documentation about this "golden path" is good too.  
> Make
> using a properly designed directory structure easy and a improper one
> inconvenient and most people will automatically follow your lead (for 
> those
> at RubyConf: think "Man Dancing, Man playing flute").

I think that setup.rb's directory layout:

     http://i.loveruby.net/en/man/setup/devel.html

would be a good place to start.

~ patrick