RubyInstaller's DevKit - PoC

Proof-of-Concept of simpler RubyInstaller's DevKit activation and detection mechanism.

It aims to replace current approach of dealing with DevKit installation and replace by a RubyGems plugin.

IMPORTANT

This project is not 100% functional, it implements some of the ideas mentioned in RubyInstaller's mailing list:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rubyinstaller/fZAmPSlz4zM/discussion

Please see the TODO list of things to be completed before this project can be considered ready.

TODO

• Add basic devkit.rb
• Add RubyGems plugin hook
• Reorganize classes and introduce specs to activation and detection
• Download, verify and extract DevKit (perhaps bundle 7za?)
• devkit.yml generator
• CLI

Internals

The following describes a bit the internal classes of this gem:

# obtain list of possible places for DevKit installation
DevKit.candidates
# => ["C:/Ruby200-x64/DevKit", "C:/ProgramData/RubyInstaller/DevKit/mingw64-64-4.7.2"]

# determine real availability (using checks and binaries listed in devkit.yml)
path = DevKit.available.first
# => "C:/ProgramData/RubyInstaller/DevKit/mingw64-64-4.7.2"

# activate the DevKit in path
activator = DevKit::Activator.new(path)
# => #<DevKit::Activator:0x0000000313e860 .... @info_file=#<struct DevKit::InfoFile root="C:/Ruby200-x64">, @path="C:/ProgramData/RubyInstaller/DevKit/mingw64-64-4.7.2">

a.activate!
# => true

a.activated?
# => true

Installation

Use RubyGems to install the gem:

gem install rubyinstaller-devkit

And then verify your DevKit installation:

devkit check

Usage

TODO: Write usage instructions here

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/oneclick/devkit-gem/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request