Shrink gem size

[brunoarueira]

No description provided.

[hsbt]

There is no effect to reduce file size with this change.

See

$ rake build
racc 1.5.2 built to pkg/racc-1.5.2.gem.
$ mv pkg/racc-1.5.2{,-org}.gem
$ git checkout -b brunoarueira-feat/shrink-gem-size master
  git pull https://github.com/brunoarueira/racc.git feat/shrink-gem-size

Switched to a new branch 'brunoarueira-feat/shrink-gem-size'
remote: Enumerating objects: 5, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1/1), done.
remote: Total 3 (delta 2), reused 3 (delta 2), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), 697 bytes | 139.00 KiB/s, done.
From github.com:brunoarueira/racc
 * branch                  feat/shrink-gem-size -> FETCH_HEAD
Merge made by the 'recursive' strategy.
 racc.gemspec | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
$ rake build
racc 1.5.2 built to pkg/racc-1.5.2.gem.
$ ll pkg/*.gem
.rw-r--r-- hsbt staff 433 KB Fri Jun 18 08:31:34 2021  racc-1.5.2-org.gem
.rw-r--r-- hsbt staff 433 KB Fri Jun 18 08:32:11 2021  racc-1.5.2.gem

[brunoarueira]

Interesting, because I've seen the contents of test folder inside one docker image I've built and only this folder is the main size under racc. I'll check tomorrow and return! Thanks anyway 😄

[olleolleolle]

👋 Hi!

I saw that this changes the set of "test_files", which are no longer recommended to set, nor are they used by RubyGems. Source: 2014 comment by a maintainer of RubyGems' guides. rubygems/guides#90 (comment)

So: One change would be to not keep the test_files around in the gemspec, unless this repo is using that setting for anything.

[brunoarueira]

Hey @hsbt @olleolleolle,

Sorry for the delay!

I've checked and following the suggestion made by @olleolleolle, removing the test_files from gemspec improves greatly the gem size. See the added output:

❯ ll pkg/
total 1032
-rw-r--r--  1 brunoarueira  staff    76K Jun 30 17:30 racc-1.5.2.beta.gem
-rw-r--r--  1 brunoarueira  staff   438K Jun 30 17:29 racc-1.5.2.gem

The beta is the one with test_files removed and the last was the original approach.