On Apr 24, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Matthieu Riou wrote:
Ruby [sic - Buildr] is
the first Apache project in Ruby and its binary release is going to
be a
Ruby Gem. The way gems are distributed is by uploading them on
Rubyforge, at
least as long as Apache doesn't have its own gem server (which
would be
entirely possible but that's another story). That's very much like
Maven
artifacts (mirrored on maven.org) I believe, except that for Maven the
process has been streamlined because it's already common practice.
I started Ruby work last year for Solr here:
<http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/solr/trunk/client/ruby/>
solr-ruby is a Ruby library interacting with Solr that bundles into a
gem and even bundles into a Rails plugin directory structure. I've
been manually updating RubyForge with local builds of the gem as
unofficial (< 1.0) builds.
flare is a RoR plugin (enabling faceted browsing, full-text search,
Ajax suggest) for Solr.
I'd love to have Apache support Ruby infrastructure-wise in terms of
being an official gem server, etc.
So count me in for supporting (and helping if I can) in these efforts
to Rubyify Apache a bit more :)
Re: Buildr - I've yet to give it a serious try, but I've been
following the e-mail list and have tinkered with a much older version
of it a while ago. Great stuff!
Erik
