MicroGem

The aim of this project is, at first, to create a re-implementation of the RubyGems install command, which should be easier to get up and running on Ruby implementations such as MacRuby.

See the TODO file for a list of todo’s.

Installation

On Ruby with working RubyGems

$ sudo gem install alloy-microgem -s http://gems.github.com

On Ruby without working RubyGems (eg MacRuby)

Get source:

$ git clone git://github.com/alloy/microgem.git
$ cd microgem

Install the remote gem:

$ sudo env PRODUCTION=true macruby ./bin/

µgem banner

Microgem is an unsophisticated package manager for Ruby.
And the first commandline utility to start with a multibyte character; 

Getting started

Get the source:

$ git clone git://github.com/alloy/microgem.git

Install a gem:

$ ./bin/

Note that unless you set the PRODUCTION environment variable everything is installed in ./tmp.

The current default sources are rubyforge and github.

Limitations

There are a lot of limitations currently compared to RubyGems. The most important ones are:

• Does not install C extensions yet.

Development

The way it’s being developed is in a test and RubyGems data driven manner. We are using the ‘quick’ marshalled specs, so we use those fixtures to run the tests.

Goals

• Install gems.

• Small.

• Test driven.

• Clean room design.

• Naive, no more code than necessary should be written. (YAGNI)