Re: [PATCH] ruby-rake-compiler

["Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>]

Hey Pjotr,

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> wrote:
> Attached a Ruby module in preparation of Nokogiri support.

I've applied this patch with a number of changes:

* Removed the use of 'snippet'.  That is for making changes that
aren't specific to building for Guix, like removing a piece of
non-free source.  The cucumber task file is now deleted in a phase
that runs before the 'build' phase.

* Used the 'modify-phases' syntax instead of 'alist-replace' and friends.

* Removed the rspec native input.  It can be added back in when we can
actually run the test suite.

* Cleaned up synopsis/description to use more neutral language.

* Fixed license.  It's actually the Expat license, which is verrrrry
similar to the X11 license.

> (I am pretty close as described in
> https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/RUBYGEMS-Nokogiri.org).
>
> Cucumber support comes later (it depends on Nokogiri itself).

Sounds like we'll have to do a similar dance that I did with rspec:
Disable test suites for all dependencies of cucumber. :(

> David: there are quite a few modules now that build gems through 'rake
> gem'.  Would it be an idea to try that by default when there is no
> gemspec file?

Yes, I think that would be a good change.  Want to write a patch that
does that and updates all of the relevant package recipes?

Thanks!  It will be nice to have Nokogiri!

- Dave