On Oct 4, 2006, at 6:23pm, Caleb Phillips wrote:
So, I just released the first version of my first rubygem[1]
(yay!). It was amazingly painless, with one exception: accessing
data files from the installed library. I spent entirely too much
time today reading through the rubygems-dev-list; and they refer to
this problem as the 'datadir' problem. It is also mentioned
periodically on the ruby-lang list. But, as far as I can tell, it
hasn't been resolved. Of course, my research isn't assisted by the
fact that rubygems.org has been down for a couple of days (without
google's cache I would be helpless).
So, has anyone here come up against this problem? Is there a
solution that I am just not lucky enough to find documentation for?
Is there a way to use Rake magic or setup.rb magic from within the
gem to stick the shared data file somewhere accessible later?
If you are wondering, the data file read in by the simpleword?
method on the first call. It is just a list of (simple) words which
have been "normalized" and are newline separated. Maybe the best
solution is to not have such a data file at all and do something
else - if you have suggestions here, I am equally interested.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks,
[1] http://rubyforge.org/projects/style/
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