Gem Dependencies

# In config/environment.rb
Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
config.gem “RedCloth”, :version => “>= 3.0.4″
end

# One more thing we need to add; RedCloth is not found in the gem repository.
config.gem “RedCloth”, :version => “>=3.0.4″, :source=>”http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/”

# rake tasks
jruby -S rake gems                  # lists gem dependencies of project
jruby -S rake gems:install    # installs gems required by project
jruby -S rake gems:unpack  # include gems in rails project
jruby -S rake gems:build      # native extension code

# If you run across a gem that requires a different name than the gem file…
config.gem ‘aws-s3′, :lib => ‘aws/s3′

# Sometimes you want to require gems in certain environments/test.rb
config.gem ‘mocha’
config.gem ‘Shoulda’

jruby -S rake gems RAILS_ENV=’test’

~ by bandwagonblog on January 17, 2009.