[LRUG] [JOBS] Short-term contract

Gavin Heavyside gavin at heavyside.co.uk
Mon Nov 10 02:48:00 PST 2014


Omnibus might be worth a look too: https://github.com/opscode/omnibus

On 10 November 2014 10:33, Alejandro Andres <alej at redradix.com> wrote:

> Take a look at these gems that might help you:
> https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/packaging_to_executables
>
> -
> Alejandro Andrés
> Partner at redradix.com
>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Peter Inglesby <peter.inglesby at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi LRUG,
>>
>> TL;DR: we're looking for somebody to package up a command line tool so
>> that it can be easily installed on any platform.
>>
>> I work for OpenCorporates, and we have the largest open database of
>> company data in the world.  We get much of our data from the Open Data
>> community who write scrapers for us.  We have a command line tool, written
>> in Ruby, which people use to run their scrapers and to submit their scraped
>> data.
>>
>> Currently, the tool must be installed as a gem, which is distinctly
>> suboptimal, especially for non-Ruby programmers.  We're looking for
>> somebody to show us how to package the tool so that it can be easily
>> downloaded and installed on OSX and Windows.  I suspect this is fairly
>> straightforward if you've done this kind of thing before and is probably no
>> more than a day's work.
>>
>> Please get in touch if you're interested, or know somebody who might be.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Peter Inglesby
>>
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