On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 08:29:15AM -0700, Trans wrote:
> Is there a way to see if a gem is active (without activating it of
> course)?
Looking at the rubygems code for Gem.activate I'm assuming that an 'active' gem
means that the spec.require_paths have been added to $LOAD_PATH. Without
examining $LOAD_PATH there is an @loaded_specs member variable of the Gem module
you could acces, but it is not publicly available.
Using the API, take a bit of the code from Gem.activate and use it.
require 'rubygems'
def is_active?( name, version_req = ::Gem::Requirement.default )
dep = ::Gem::Dependency.new( name, version_req )
idx = Gem::SourceIndex.from_gems_in(
*Gem::SourceIndex.installed_spec_directories )
matches = idx.find_name( dep.name, dep.version_requirements )
matches.each do |spec|
spec.require_paths.each do |req_path|
req_path = File.join( spec.full_gem_path, req_path )
if $LOAD_PATH.include?( req_path ) then
return req_path
end
end
end
return false
end
puts "Is the configuration gem loaded ? : #{is_active?( 'configuration' )}"
# => false
require 'configuration'
puts "Is the configuration gem loaded ? : #{is_active?( 'configuration' )}"
# => /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/configuration-0.0.5/lib
> In addition is there a way to access a gemspec from code?
See the first 3 lines of the is_active? method above for a way to search for a
gemspec.
> Lastly, is there a way to get the path to where a gem is installed?
Given that you found the spec above, you can do 'spec.full_gem_path'
Or if you want all of them:
Gem.source_index.each do |full_name, spec|
puts "#{full_name} is installed in #{spec.full_gem_path}"
end
>
> Thanks,
> T
enjoy,
-jeremy
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