[LRUG] Chat Digest, Vol 50, Issue 5

[Matthew Rudy Jacobs]

On 8 March 2010 07:10, Steve Graham <sjtgraham at mac.com> wrote:

> Yes, there is no lib in this gem. No binaries either :)… just a standalone
> Ruby script with executable permissions.
>
> i.e.  $> cat /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/dicks-0.03/bin/dicks
>
> Install the gem and then type 'dicks' into the command line.
>
> Steve
>
>
I'm not happy with the quality of this gem.
It seems all the code is stored in the binary.

And there are no tests.

I will not be deploying this onto my production server.

Please, people,
write tests if you expect me to use your code!


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> > Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 11:28:13 +0000
> > From: Alex MacCaw <maccman at gmail.com>
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> > Mathew,
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> > It seems the package is standalone.
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> > Try executing the binary.
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> > Alex
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> > On 5 Mar 2010, at 15:34, chat-request at lists.lrug.org wrote:
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> >> Message: 6
> >> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 15:23:42 +0000
> >> From: Matthew Willson <matthew at playlouder.com>
> >> To: London Ruby Users Group <chat at lists.lrug.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [LRUG] Silly gems...
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> >>>> require 'dicks'  # chuckle
> >> LoadError: no such file to load -- dicks
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> >> Oh dear - looks like their 'package' doesn't perform
> >> (sorry :)
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> >> On 5 Mar 2010, at 15:19, Kenneth Lee wrote:
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> >>> Ruby is obviously saving some people enough time to build this...
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> >>> http://rubygems.org/gems/dicks
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