[TxMt] Re: [TM2] rmate-1.5.5 now a ruby gem... installation difficulties

[Allan Odgaard]

On 18 Mar 2013, at 20:12, Jason McC. Smith wrote:

> In the interest of retaining my remaining hair, what's the quick and 
> dirty
> way of installing rmate on remote machines now, when one does not have
> admin rights to do a simple install of rubygems?

Afraid it won’t work without rubygem because of how it has moved the 
version to a required file and rely on the rubygem loader to setup the 
load path.

I would like to once again have rmate a self-contained file, the only 
reason for splitting it up was to share the version include with the 
gemspec file — but I think it could be handled by refactoring the 
rmate executable to be usable as a library as well (with all symbols 
encapsulated in a module).

Short-term though my goal was to just make auto-updating work (via 
rubygem).

If you need the self-contained version you will need to either grab the 
version prior to the gemification commit or maybe give the bash port a 
try: https://github.com/aurora/rmate

If you know ruby you may also submit a pull request to make it possible 
to ‘require "rmate"’ from the gemspec to be able to access 
‘Rmate::VERSION’ :) Though come to think of it, there might be an 
issue requiring files w/o a .rb extension, or maybe that was another 
language which had this requirement…