Comments on: Ruby Tracker, the Ruby Dependency Manager

By: Bundler: Best way to manage your Gems « Veerasundaravel's Weblog

Bundler: Best way to manage your Gems « Veerasundaravel's Weblog — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:32:12 +0000

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By: Seth Ladd

Seth Ladd — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 05:08:13 +0000

Awesome, was thinking about the same thing. +1 for adding some collective intelligence and recommending which gems I would find useful, given other related gem sets out there.

By: Nathaniel Bibler

Nathaniel Bibler — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:43:04 +0000

Heh .. right. We’ve already got that fixed, just haven’t deployed it yet. Thanks for the heads up. :-D

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:29:13 +0000

You might have a typo on the front page:

“Ruby Tracker alerts you whenever your project dependencies change. It works with public or private repositories and is setup is seconds.”

I am assuming you mean to say, “and is setup in seconds”??

By: Sohan

Sohan — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:28:31 +0000

I linked to this post at the Drink Rails blog as one of the top Ruby on Rails related posts of the day.

By: Nathaniel Bibler

Nathaniel Bibler — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:34:15 +0000

@robert: That’d be the way we’d implement it when it went in. Basically, an endpoint that either a local HTML form would post into and an endpoint for an external POST call with the data.

By: Robert Rouse

Robert Rouse — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:22:27 +0000

Nathaniel,

If you believe that to be the case, why not go a step further and add something that one could POST the contents of their Gemfile/Gemfile.lock to so it could be added as a post commit hook? No need for another repository then.

By: Nathaniel Bibler

Nathaniel Bibler — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:19:27 +0000

@nanofunk: Yeah, that’s certainly a good work-around solution. You could actually tie that in to a post-commit hook in Git to auto-update that Gemfile repository, as well… automate it as much as possible.

As for the upload, Nick Quaranto and James Rosen mentioned during our development to add an upload facility for people who just want to post their Gemfile (and Gemfile.lock) to us. It should be trivial to add that facility to the application. Our only concern with it is that the application is only useful if you keep that Gemfile and .lock up-to-date. Making it a manual process to upload the files diminishes the value… we think. Maybe we’re wrong. :)

By: Sean Hussey

Sean Hussey — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:44:35 +0000

@nanofunk Yeah, I’d like to see a way to upload via a Capistrano task on deploy. That’d send the freshest file up there.

Though I suppose you could also do the same with the public repo on deploy. Interesting workaround.

By: Bernard Potocki

Bernard Potocki — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:40:51 +0000

Damn… Only work if you have Gemfile or Gemfile.lock so it’s useless for gems and old projects… Guys – support at last .gemspec for gems or provide tutorial how to include Gemfile when creating .gemspec…