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user2993456
user2993456

Reputation:

How does rails.bat get installed to the bin directory when installing the Rails gem?

I am writing a gem, and I need a .bat file to be installed into bin when the gem is downloaded from rubygems.

The rails gem appears to do something similar, since after running gem install rails, the rails.bat file shows up in my ruby install directory (I'm on windows, but I'm sure that the equivalent shell script shows up on *nix systems)

My question is, how does rails.bat get to the bin directory, and how can I mimic this action to get my .bat file into bin when users install my gem?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 244

Answers (1)

Wand Maker
Wand Maker

Reputation: 18762

In the gemspec, you can use executables option to add binaries.

Rails does this in its railties.gemspec, by adding rails executable as below:

s.executables = ['rails']

RubyGems guide has a section on "Adding an executable"

gem install <gem-name> takes cares of creating .bat file in Ruby's bin folder

Upvotes: 1

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