Create a brew package

[kirkegaard]

$ brew install git-pulls
$ profit/win

[cypher]

Why? Homebrew specifically doesn't want to replace systems like Rubygems, since it would only lead to duplication.

[kirkegaard]

They did it with other gems like defunkt's gist and git-flow
So why not?

Its not duplicating rubygems. Its just compiling ruby code to a binary using rake? Im new to ruby so i dont know if thats exactly what they do but it looks like it

https://github.com/defunkt/gist/blob/master/Rakefile

[cypher]

git-flow doesn't seem to be available as a gem. I don't know why they allowed gist, but it's probably because it didn't just use RubyGems to install it.

And rake is just "Ruby make", by itself it won't do anything. git-pulls would need a Rakefile with a task that could install it to a given prefix.

[AdrienGiboire]

Actually, I have no point on it. It seems RubyGems is not against this solution: http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/6#page19

I may think about it. It could allow people to not have to run with RubyGems, I guess.

[AdrienGiboire]

After more investigations, it seems that:

Ruby gems are generally not accepted into Homebrew; rather, it is expected that users will install Ruby (possibly via Homebrew), and then install/manage gems with RubyGems instead.

More on this page: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Acceptable-Formula

Sort of.