On Dec 28, 2006, at 04:18, Eloy Duran wrote: > I'm trying to create an Mac OS X interface to rubygems which should > be part of an RubyCocoa IDE. > > I've looked at another application (rubyslippers) which has a GUI > for rubygems, but it seems to me that it just uses the 'gem' > command line tool. Which is an option, but I would prefer to be > able to use some public Gem api if available. > > Right now I did some testing with the internals of rubygems like: > > <code> > require 'rubygems/remote_installer' > require 'yaml'
You shouldn't need to require yaml. > query = 'event' > result = Gem::RemoteInstaller.new().search(query) This method no longer exists, you'll now find it over on Gem::SourceInfoCache where it makes more sense. > </code> > > which returns an array of gems that have 'event' in their name, but > it doesn't for instance group them like the results shown on the > command line. > > So for a gem like 'eventmachine' instead of 1 result with multiple > versions I would get multiple 'eventmachine' results for the > different versions available. You can convert a list of matches into the results you want with about five lines of code. Internally, having them grouped the way the command line does makes things much more difficult. > Also it only searches based on the title of the gem, not the > description... RubyGems provides no built-in way of searching descriptions. > So to wrap it up, I could of course revert to wrapping the 'gem' > command line tool, and maybe even scraping the rubyforge.org search > results page (because it also searches on the description). rubyforge.org does not search the gem descriptions. > But I rather wouldn't. Could someone tell me if such an interface > exists and maybe point me to some documentation or an example?? I've done a bunch of work to make RubyGems more scriptable for 0.9.1. Try out the recent beta (0.9.0.8). Unfortunately, too much code lives in lib/rubygems/gem_commands.rb that should live elsewhere. I'm doing what I can to correct this, which will make everyone's lives better. -- Eric Hodel - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://blog.segment7.net I LIT YOUR GEM ON FIRE! _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
