[ANN] stickler 0.1.0 Released

[Jeremy Hinegardner]

stickler version 0.1.0 has been released.

gem install stickler

http://copiousfreetime.rubyforge.org/stickler

Stickler is a tool to organize and maintain an internal gem
repository.

At times it is useful to have complete control over the availability of
the gems for your testing, staging and production environments. In these
cases you probably do not want to accidentally type 'gem update' and get
a new untested version of a gem installed on your machines. This is
where Stickler helps.

Configure stickler with the the names and versions of the gems you
require for your deployment and it will organize and setup everything
that is necessary for a standard web server to function as your internal
gem distribution server.

{{ Release notes for Version 0.1.0 }}

* http://copiousfreetime.org/articles/2008/10/09/managing-a-gem-repository-with-stickler.html
* Initial public release

enjoy,

-jeremy

 

[Eric Hodel]

stickler version 0.1.0 has been released.

gem install stickler

http://copiousfreetime.rubyforge.org/stickler

Stickler is a tool to organize and maintain an internal gem
repository.

Looks like a nice tool, some notes:

~> doesn't mean "Approximately greater than", it's described here:

http://blog.zenspider.com/2008/10/rubygems-howto-preventing-cata.html

but to save you a click works like this:

3.y.z "~> 3.0"
3.0.z "~> 3.0.0"
3.5.z to <4.0 "~> 3.5"
3.5.z to <3.6 "~> 3.5.0"

Which is clearer than my english description, "matches a version from
the specified release up to but not including a release with a higher
version in the second most specific dot". (Clumsy, yes)

found = source_specs.select do | spec |
dependency =~ Gem:ependency.new( spec.name, spec.version )
end

In a future version of RubyGems, I'm going to make Gem:ependency#=~
and Gem::Specification#=~ work with each other and duck type it so you
don't have to go through that extra step.

 

[Jeremy Hinegardner]

Looks like a nice tool, some notes:
Thanks.

~> doesn't mean "Approximately greater than", it's described here:

http://blog.zenspider.com/2008/10/rubygems-howto-preventing-cata.html

but to save you a click works like this:


Which is clearer than my english description, "matches a version from the
specified release up to but not including a release with a higher version
in the second most specific dot". (Clumsy, yes)

Yes, I understand what it means, and it is always hard to describe. That chart
is a very nice demonstration. I was trying to figure out the best way to put it
concisely and ended up coping the description from
http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/16#page74, that link is also displayed at
the interactive prompt.

"Approximately greater than" is definitely not what it is. How about
"Pessimistically Greater Than" or "Greater Than Up to a Point"? Any other
suggestions?

In a future version of RubyGems, I'm going to make Gem:ependency#=~ and
Gem::Specification#=~ work with each other and duck type it so you don't
have to go through that extra step.

Thanks, that will be useful.

enjoy,

-jeremy

 

[Martin DeMello]

"Approximately greater than" is definitely not what it is. How about
"Pessimistically Greater Than" or "Greater Than Up to a Point"? Any other
suggestions?

"Greater than, but within the same version"
"Boundedly greater than"
"Compatibly greater than"

martin

 

[Ryan Davis]

Yes, I understand what it means, and it is always hard to describe.
That chart
is a very nice demonstration. I was trying to figure out the best
way to put it
concisely and ended up coping the description from
http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/16#page74, that link is also
displayed at
the interactive prompt.

"Approximately greater than" is definitely not what it is. How about
"Pessimistically Greater Than" or "Greater Than Up to a Point"?
Any other
suggestions?

"automatic range"?

um... in hindsight, why didn't we use range notation?

3.y.z "3...4"
3.0.z "3.0...4"
3.5.z to <4.0 "3.5...4"
3.5.z to <3.6 "3.5...3.6"

or, because the dots are a tad ambiguous, dashes:

3.y.z "3-4"
3.0.z "3.0-4"
3.5.z to <4.0 "3.5-4"
3.5.z to <3.6 "3.5-3.6"

 

[Pablo Q.]

[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]

Hi Jeremy,

I installed it but I got this error trying to setup the repository. I fixed
it just installing progressbar (gem install progressbar).

Great work. It seems useful in my case for the company that I work to make
deployment in new servers easier.

castor@castor-laptop:~$ stickler setup /home/castor/repos/
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`gem_original_require': no such file to load -- progressbar (LoadError)
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/stickler-0.1.0/lib/stickler/source.rb:3
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`gem_original_require'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/stickler-0.1.0/lib/stickler.rb:15
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`gem_original_require'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/stickler-0.1.0/bin/stickler:8
from /usr/bin/stickler:19:in `load'
from /usr/bin/stickler:19

 

[Jeremy Hinegardner]

Hi Jeremy,

I installed it but I got this error trying to setup the repository. I fixed
it just installing progressbar (gem install progressbar).

Great work. It seems useful in my case for the company that I work to make
deployment in new servers easier.

castor@castor-laptop:~$ stickler setup /home/castor/repos/
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`gem_original_require': no such file to load -- progressbar (LoadError)
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/stickler-0.1.0/lib/stickler/source.rb:3
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`gem_original_require'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/stickler-0.1.0/lib/stickler.rb:15
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`gem_original_require'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/stickler-0.1.0/bin/stickler:8
from /usr/bin/stickler:19:in `load'
from /usr/bin/stickler:19

Yup, bug from when I was testing using progress bar for showing progress.
I never removed the requires. a bug fix release will be sent out today.