[Ruby] Packaging up image_science

[Eric Hodel]

On Aug 16, 2007, at 15:12, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> On 8/16/07, Eric Hodel <drbrain at segment7.net> wrote:
>> On Aug 16, 2007, at 13:44, Eric Hodel wrote:
>>> On Aug 13, 2007, at 10:29, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
>>>> How can I package up image_science to use in my Rails  
>>>> application?  I
>>>> don't want to have the web servers compile it.  Ideally, I could  
>>>> put
>>>> the shared lib into vendor/lib in my Rails app or something  
>>>> similar.
>>>>
>>>> I read something about inline_package, but I can't figure out  
>>>> how to
>>>> use it with image_science.
>>>
>>> gem unpack image_science
>>> cd image_science-version
>>> inline_package image_science version
>>
>> No, I lied.
>>
>> inline_package image_science-darwin 1.1.3
>> gem install pkg/image_science-darwin-1.1.3.gem
>
> So, ruby_inline looks for the shared library as a gem first?  And if
> it doesn't exist as a gem, then it builds it?

No, it looks for inline/Inline_Class_mumble.c first.  The inline/  
directory could be anywhere in the load path.  Look at inline.rb for  
full details.

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