[Rubygems-developers] Executing code after installing gem

[Jim Weirich]

On Nov 25, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Charlie Savage wrote:

> Except it already does by letting a developer specify a Rakefile in  
> spec.extensions.  That's how I hacked around RubyGems to correctly  
> install dependent dlls into the lib directory.
>
> Not to mention the fact that once I have my gem installed, it can  
> pretty much do what it wants.

Once it is installed, it will run as a regular user, not as root.

Ideally you want to be able to build as a normal user and only switch  
to root for the "copy files" portion of the install.  Is there a  
system independent way of doing that?

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