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gemwatch - Watch rubygems.org and download gems converted to tarballs

Introduction

This application was designed to help Debian developers in tracking Ruby software released only as rubygems.

Usage in Debian watch files

Debian package maintainers can use the following syntax in their watch files to be properly warned of new upstream releases:

version=3
http://gemwatch.heroku.com/${gem} /download/${gem}-(.*)\.tar\.gz

Gem conversion to tarball

A gem named mygem-0.1.0.gem is converted in a tarball with the following steps:

mkdir mygem-0.1.0
cd mygem-0.1.0
wget ...../mygem-0.1.0.gem
tar xf mygem-0.1.0.gem
tar xzf data.tar.gz
xcat metadata.gz > metadata.yml
rm -f mygem-0.1.0.gem data.tar.gz metadata.gz
cd ..
tar czf mygem-0.1.0.tar.gz mygem-0.1.0

This way:

  • The tarball contains all the files the gem contains
  • The gem metadata ends up in a file named metadata.yml inside the tarball

Running as CGI

  • Create a symlink pointing to the cgi script into your cgi-bin directory. The symlink can be named as you wish.
  • Make sure gemwatch's public directory is accessible as /gemwatch

* Example: ** http://mysite.com/cgi-bin/gemwatch, where gemwatch is a symlink to gemwatch's cgi script ** http://mysite.com/gemwatch is a symlink (or an alias) to gemwatch's public directory.

License

Copyright © 2010, Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@softwarelivre.org>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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