I need to unpack an .rar archive with Ruby. I could not find a gem though.
I discovered the rar gem which only allows to create an archive. How can I extract a rar file, not just create it?
After doing some additional reading on the subject it seems that any gems that were for this are basically abandoned. But, you can brew install unrar and use that from Ruby system('unrar l your_file.rar').
ffi-libarchive provides a gem-based solution. It works for rar files even though they don't specifically mention it (see issue #151). Add this to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'ffi-libarchive'
and then execute:
$ bundle
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I want to create a gem that installs some binaries on "/usr/local/bin". In order to work, I need to run some "cp"/"ln"/"chmod" commands when the user (me) runs gem install mygem.
Is there any callback/method that is called at the installation and that I can override it?
UPDATE:
I found a better way to achieve it: gemspec has a section to add binary files on the system. I put the answer below, but I still wonder how to run code after/before gem installation.
See this https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues/608 you have to run the default task after installation
I found a better way to achieve it: gemspec has a section to add binary files on the system.
Eg:
spec.bindir = "bin"
...
spec.executables << 'your_app'
Then, put your_app in bin.
PS: I'm the OP, but I will not accept this as solution because I still wonder how to run code after/before gem installation.
I have two systems that use the same command line interface written in ruby. One system is using an older version that's incompatible with the scripts we have written. We'd like to use bundler to download all the dependencies for the 2.0 on our own system, and then migrate that bundle over to the system with the older version so that we can use 2.0 there as well.
We do not have the option to run bundle install on the other system because it's not open to the internets.
So the idea is on my system:
bundle init
...write Gemfile...
bundle install
tar -czf cli2.0.tar.gz ./Gemfile ./Gemfile.lock ./.bundle ./bundle
... move cli2.0.tar.gz to the other system ...
On system B:
tar -zxf cli2.0.tar.gz
bundle exec cli2.0 version
But at this point we get an error stating that bundler couldn't find any of the gems even though they're right there under ./bundle/ruby/2.3.0/!!
It looks like they have different versions of ruby, and ruby-gems installed.
Received some help from a coworker, the gist is I was doing it all wrong.
If you want to transport gems and see consistent performance with bundler do this.
bundle install <gem>
bundle package
This creates a cache of the downloaded gems for transport.
tar -czf ./transport.tar.gz ./Gemfile ./Gemfile.lock ./vendor
On the next machine:
tar -xzf ./transport.tar.gz
bundle exec <command>
Might be worth a try to make your second Gemfile (the one without internet access) reference the gems using paths.
i.e.
gem some_gem, path: "/home/you/some_path/some_gem"
See this question for more info on that.
If you don't have internet access but can transfer over files, it might be worth transferring the source code for a new version of bundler/RubyGems as well.
I work behind a firewall and I need some gems to automate some processes at work.
Problem:
Rubygems cannot automatically download gem dependencies so I have to manually download each gem from rubygems.org and install using the local copies. As you can imagine, this could take a very long time to find each gem dependency and manually download.
Ideal Solution:
I would like to automatically download all of these gems on another computer not behind a firewall, package the entire collection into one folder (no need to install, just download .gem files), and make that folder available to myself to download at work. The file just needs to contain every .gem file including dependencies.
Notes:
location: A solution in Ruby would be ideal! Remember, I can use gems on the secondary computer to create the solution for the primary computer where I cannot download gems remotely.
attempts: I have poured over documentation at rubygems.org, google searched, and more, but cannot find a solution. I can't seem to access the downloaded .gem files, they are unpacked and installed before I have a chance to incercept the file and save them elsewhere.
Bundler has a great way to do this: bundle package.
http://bundler.io/v1.2/bundle_package.html
The package command will put all your gems in the bundle into ./vendor/cache. You can then do whatever you want with that directory, such as copying it to another machine, or checking it into version control, or torrenting it. etc.
How would one install a Ruby VM (JRuby, Ruby MRI, etc.) on a machine that doesn't have internet access?
I'd like to just drop the tar.gz file somewhere that RVM is able to see (or checks before it goes out and tries to retrieve the package itself). Any ideas?
This blog post explains that you can drop the source archive in your $HOME/.rvm/archives directory.
cp ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2010.02.tar.gz /home/minhajuddin/.rvm/archives
rvm install ree-1.8.7
Or the docs say that you can specify the archives directory from the command line:
--archives - directory for downladed files (~/.rvm/archives/)
I am trying to set up Ruby on Rails on windows. I am using the Flash Rails distribution that looks pretty good, but there is an issue with sqlite3. I found the threads telling me to install version 1.2.3, which installed fine. I'm using ruby 1.9.0, and every time I try and run a script (e.g. rake db:create) that uses the database I get an error message "no driver for sqlite3 found".
This apparently is a missing sqlite3.dll, but I have the dll in my %PATH%, and I have also tried copying it into the directory where I am running the script from, the directory where the sqlite3 ruby code lives.
Does anyone have any ideas? If possible I want all teh ruby stuff to be self contained so I can use it from a pen drive.
EDIT: To clarify, I already used gem install to install the ruby-sqlite3 gem - it is just non functional as it cannot find the sqlite3.dll (even though it is actually present in a directory on my %PATH%)
EDIT PART 2: After doing some more digging, the problem appears that ruby will not load the sqlite3_api.dll. I have copied it all over my filesystem, I just get a failure to read file. Other dll libraries in the same directory (e.g. zlib.dll) work fine!
I tried installing the dlls into system32, and that did not work either.
The problem put simply is that sqlite3-ruby 1.2.3 is not compatible with ruby 1.9. This is caused because ruby 1.9 does not use .dll files for c libraries it uses .so files instead. Additionally, since sqlite3_api.dll is written against msvcrt-ruby18.dll. This means that it specifically only will support ruby 1.8.*.
The good news is that there is a fat binary version that will support both ruby 1.8 and ruby 1.9. Uninstalling all former versions of sqlite3-ruby and then installing this one. (You may have to manually delete some versions the gem after uninstalling.) in order to install it use
install sqlite3-ruby --source http://gems.rubyinstaller.org
for more information see this website
Try installing the sqlite3-ruby gem:
gem install sqlite3-ruby
Something similar happened to me recently so I thought I'd update my answer.
For reference there's a sqlite3_api.dll file located in the gem's lib directory. Also the sqlite3.dll file needs to be reachable on the path. They are different files, the first is required by the gem to interface Ruby to C code, while the second contains the actual Sqlite implementation.
It's best to get the second file from the sqlite website and extract it to the Ruby\bin directory (as you shouldn't manually put DLL's into the windows or windows\system directories any more).
So for reference "sqlite3_api.dll" needs to be in:
Ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\sqlite3-ruby-1.2.3-x86-mswin32\lib
and "sqlite3.dll" needs to be on the path, possibly in:
Ruby\bin
As for the "driver not found" problem I would suggest trying the easy things first and making sure gems is installed correctly, up to date, and that the RUBYLIB and PATH environment variables are set appropriately. (System restart may be required to propagate the changes fully.)
Re this link
Download sqlitedll-3_6_10.zip and extract into ruby/bin!
Try going to sqlite.org download page and get the zipped up dll. Then put that in your c:\windows\system32 folder, that should allow Ruby to find it.
Restart your machine after running install sqlite3-ruby
To clarify, which gem are you using? sqlite-ruby or sqlite3-ruby?
They're part of the same project, but different releases. The key is that sqlite3 appears to have driver code included.
I assume you're attempting to use the first, since it's giving me the same error. If so, try switching.
Also.. How literal do you mean by this?
but I have the dll in my %PATH%
PATH=...;C:\sqlite\sqlite3.dll
PATH=...;C:\sqlite
The first will attempt to find C:\sqlite\sqlite3.dll\sqlite3.dll, AFAIK.
I use Ruby 1.8.7 (works with 1.9.1 too)
OS is WindowsXP SP3
Go to
http://www.sqlite.org/download.html
and Download file
sqlitedll-3_7_0_1.zip (265.19 KiB)
and unzip then we will get
sqlite3.dll
Copy sqlite3.dll to your bin folder
as C:\Ruby191\bin or C:\Ruby187\bin
then it works