Ruby on Rails

Actually I had that line before. Then I removed it when I build a gem
for win32 as I didn't need to build anything. Then forgot to paste
back.

Thank you, Fred, for the notice.

On Aug 2, 5:30 pm, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Aug 2, 2:06 am,CUBRID<kadish...@gmail.com> wrote:> Thank you!
>
> > I will post to the rubygems gorup. But, if you might have time to
> > explain me which specification exactly should be set, I would be very
> > glad for your help! What I understand from what you've said is the
> > "s.platform = Gem::Platform::RUBY" specification. If, so, this is
> > exactly what I did, i.e. set it to Native Ruby.
>
> No, that's not what you need, seehttp://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/20#extensions
> You might also want ot look at an existing gem that contains a native
> library and see what it does
>
> Fred
>
>
>
> > Anyway, thank you for you help!
>
> > Esen.
>
> > On Jul 30, 6:53 pm, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
>
> > > On Jul 30, 10:19 am,CUBRID<kadish...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi,
>
> > > > I am encountering an odd behavior of gem install function. Can anyone
> > > > explain me what "gem install" actually does?
>
> > > > I have several C code and header files, and one extconf.rb file, +
> > > > mygem.gemspec file. So, when I build a gem it successfully creates
> > > > mygem-0.61.gem.
>
> > > > So, when I install it locally using "gem install mygem-0.61.gem" I
> > > > expect the gem to create a makefile, because in the extconf.rb file I
> > > > explicitly indicate it, and then "make install" that newly created
> > > > Makefile. However, "gem install' does not create a Makefile and does
> > > > not install it. What it does is just copies those several files to the
> > > > gem directory, where Gem keeps all its gems.
>
> > > > What I have to do is manually rub "ruby extconf.rb", which creates the
> > > > Makefile, and manually "make install".
>
> > > > The questions is: Should not "gem install" perform all these operation
> > > > by itself, when I type "gem install mygem"?
>
> > > You need to indicate in your gemspec that there is a native library to
> > > build. You might get more answers on one of the main ruby lists as
> > > this isn't really a rails question.
>
> > > Fred

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