New ruby gem: natives - lookups and installs native packages required by gems

[Teo Hui Ming]

Hi all,

I just released a new ruby gem: natives [1].

Summary:
Installs native library packages required by Ruby gems on your machine.
It lookups the multi-platform catalog maintained by natives-catalog [2] project.

Usage:
$ gem install natives
$ natives install curb capybara-webkit nokogiri sqlite3

In the example, it will lookup and auto-install native
library/packages (e.g. curl, sqlite, qt etc.) required by these gems:
curb, capybara-webkit, nokogiri, sqlite3.

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It is still in early alpha, but so far it's working.

Looking forward for your feedbacks and PRs, especially contributions
needed to help keeping the rubygems catalog [3] up-to-date :)


[1] https://github.com/teohm/natives
[2] https://github.com/teohm/natives-catalog
[3] https://github.com/teohm/natives-catalog/blob/master/catalogs/rubygems.yaml

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Huiming

[Adeh Desandies]

This is really cool!

Nice work.

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[Teo Hui Ming]

Adeh, we need lots of helps to populate the rubygem.yaml catalog file
[3], hope it can become a crowdsource effort. :)

[3] https://github.com/teohm/natives-catalog/blob/master/catalogs/rubygems.yaml

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Huiming

[ping]

Huiming, that's cool, maybe I can use it for installing zeromq

2013/11/5 Teo Hui Ming <teohu...@gmail.com>

[Teo Hui Ming]

Kevin, you can submit a patch to the rubygem.yaml catalog file for zeromq :)

[ping]

ya, will try it :D

2013/11/6 Teo Hui Ming <teohu...@gmail.com>

[Teo Hui Ming]

Forgot to mention, I just released a new version with a new feature [1].

Now if you run `natives install` on a Rails/Ruby app project dir, it
will lookup gems listed in your Gemfile, and auto-install any matching
native packages based on the rubygems.yaml catalog.

So now you just need to run:

cd your_rails_app
natives install

https://github.com/teohm/natives#have-a-gemfile

[Teo Hui Ming]

Hi, just fyi, I updated natives gem with new features, here the slides
when I talked at Ruby Singapore meetup.

https://speakerdeck.com/teohm/rubysg-meetup-gem-install-natives

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Huiming