RubyGems pre/post install

[Trans]

Does RubyGems support pre/post install scripting?

T.

 

[ara.t.howard]

Does RubyGems support pre/post install scripting?

nope.

-a

 

[Gregory Brown]

Does RubyGems support pre/post install scripting?

http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2007/03/04/audit-your-gems

Not sure if 'support' is the right word.

 

[Austin Ziegler]

nope.

And with, I think, very good reason. There are times when, in the
past, I wished it did, but aside from one loophole, there's no way to
get a gem to execute arbitrary code on installation.

-austin

 

[Trans]

And with, I think, very good reason. There are times when, in the
past, I wished it did, but aside from one loophole, there's no way to
get a gem to execute arbitrary code on installation.

-austin

Thanks Ara, Gregory and Austin. Guess, I'll just write gembundle as an
extension to Gems then.

T.

 

[Eric Hodel]

And with, I think, very good reason. There are times when, in the
past, I wished it did, but aside from one loophole, there's no way to
get a gem to execute arbitrary code on installation.

Actually, there are two. I'm going to remove the second one sometime
soon.