.gemspec is missing

[til]

It would be nice if there was a way to include the latest development version of rb-readline in a project that uses bundler with gem 'rb-readline', :git => '...', but as far as I understand that would require a .gemspec file ( http://yehudakatz.com/2010/04/02/using-gemspecs-as-intended/ ).

[luislavena]

Hello,

Funny you link to Yehuda post, please see my comments in response to him about that.

gemspec are build artifacts and because of that, shouldn't be under version control.

If you send a patch that avoid the duplication of the Gem::Specification between the rakefile and the gemspec and do not affect other aspects of the workflow I will include it.

Cheers.

[til]

Oh - sorry about that, funny indeed. I got so used to being able to specify a git repo in a bundler Gemfile that I took it for granted that it is standard and thought a missing gemspec is just an oversight. I should have read all of the discussion below that blog post before making dumb requests.

[luislavena]

@til is not a dumb request, is a different approach of development that I'm not fond with. It assumes a workflow where you use gem build to build your gems, I rather prefer Gem::PackageTask so I can package a zip file too.

gem build doesn't provide that, and I need to type more 😉

Still, as said before, if you send a pull request that creates the gemspec, remove the duplication in the rakefile and I can still benefit from rake package to generate my zip file and the gem, I will commit it.

Hint: you can use Gem::Specification.load to load the gemspec from the file.
Hint2: you can freely move rbreadline version information into it's own file so require is more easy.

Knock yourself out 😃

[til]

Thanks for the hints, I want to look into it, but no guarantees ...