preprocessing ruby gems in ruby1.9

[botp]

i notice that almost all pre 1.9 gems wont compile in ruby1.9 because
of the ff error (or something like it),

: error: =91struct RArray=92 has no member named =91len=92
: error: =91struct RArray=92 has no member named =91ptr=92
....

the typical solution i do is outlined here
http://frozenplague.net/2009/01/ruby-191-rubygems-rails/#gem_solution,
and it works 100% on my case (glad hasn't failed yet).

can this solution be handled by the rubygem preprocessor? maybe,
signal a flag of some sort, or do a best-effort processing of some
sort ?...

kind regards -botp

 

[Eric Hodel]

i notice that almost all pre 1.9 gems wont compile in ruby1.9 because
of the ff error (or something like it),

: error: =91struct RArray=92 has no member named =91len=92
: error: =91struct RArray=92 has no member named =91ptr=92
....

the typical solution i do is outlined here
http://frozenplague.net/2009/01/ruby-191-rubygems-rails/#gem_solution,
and it works 100% on my case (glad hasn't failed yet).

can this solution be handled by the rubygem preprocessor? maybe,
signal a flag of some sort, or do a best-effort processing of some
sort ?...

You could probably write a RubyGems plugin to do it using the =20
pre_install hook.=