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From: darren kirby <bulliver@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for a rails application
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:18:39
Message-Id: 200711292006.12935.bulliver@badcomputer.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ebuild for a rails application by Thufir
1 quoth the Thufir:
2 > I'm working on a rails application and am considering the install process
3 > for the rails application itself. I don't mean installing rails nor the
4 > database, but the rails application.
5 >
6 > Would an ebuild be able to install/uninstall the rails application itself?
7
8 An ebuild is little more than a shell script with some helper/hook functions
9 built in. So: if the install of your rails app is scriptable, then yes, you
10 should be able to write an ebuild for it.
11
12 As for whether there is an eclass or whatever for rails apps, I don't know...
13
14 >
15 > thanks,
16 >
17 > Thufir
18
19 -d
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22 "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
23 - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
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[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for a rails application Thufir <hawat.thufir@×××××.com>