nem

Contrary to common belief, npm[https://www.npmjs.com/] does not stand for "node package manager". In fact it is a package make installer, which just happens to be written in node. Hence it is not only meant to be used for node (or iojs[https://iojs.org/]) modules. It is also great for command-line tools written in Ruby!

Install

Either via rubygems:

$ gem install nem

Or via npm:

$ npm install -g nem

Usage

• Build your Ruby CLI gem as usual
• Don't use any dependencies (other than included in Ruby's standard library)
• Write your gemspec (example: nem.gemspec)

• Run the following command to generate a package.json file:

  $ nem

• Optional: Command-line arguments to nem will be interpreted as keywords for npm's search

• That's it. Only step left: Publish it on the rubygems & npm public registries

nem's own package.json was generated by:

$ nem ruby gem npm

Install it locally

Via npm

Instructions. In short:

$ npm install .

Via rubygems

Instructions. In short:

$ gem build *.gemspec
$ gem install *.gem

(replace * with the actual gem name)

Publish

On npm

Instructions. In short:

$ npm publish .

On rubygems

Instructions. In short:

$ gem build *.gemspec
$ gem push *.gem

(replace * with the actual gem name)

Legal

nem is relaesed under the MIT license. npm is © npm, Inc. nem is not affiliated with npm in any way.