I'm planning to make a preview release of next version of Watir.
I'm not quite sure how to create and release the gem for it. Our last release was delivered both as a gem and packaged with the nullsoft installer. We've found significant demand for both forms and plan to continue with both.
I'd like for people who do "gem install watir" to continue to get watir 1.4.1. But i'd also like people who want the new preview release to be able to install via gem.
Here's what i am thinking:
The "preview" release of Watir 1.5 will be "1.5.0". However, the gem will be called watir-dev (or watir-preview or something). So you could install it with "gem install watir-dev".
Does this make sense?
Bret
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Bret Pettichord
www.pettichord.com
What the rails guy do is run their own gem-server, then you do
gem install rails --source http://gems.rubyonrails.com --include-dependencies
to try out the beta version.
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On 05/10/05, Bret Pettichord <bret@pettichord.com> wrote:
I'm planning to make a preview release of next version of Watir.
I'm not quite sure how to create and release the gem for it. Our last
release was delivered both as a gem and packaged with the nullsoft
installer. We've found significant demand for both forms and plan to
continue with both.
I'd like for people who do "gem install watir" to continue to get watir
1.4.1. But i'd also like people who want the new preview release to be able
to install via gem.
Here's what i am thinking:
The "preview" release of Watir 1.5 will be "1.5.0". However, the gem will
be called watir-dev (or watir-preview or something). So you could install
it with "gem install watir-dev".
Does this make sense?
Bret
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Bret Pettichord
www.pettichord.com
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Dick Davies said:
What the rails guy do is run their own gem-server, then you do
gem install rails --source http://gems.rubyonrails.com
--include-dependencies
to try out the beta version.
This is actually quite easy to do if you have access to a public web
server. All you need to do is serve up static files. My own beta gems
site is http://onestepback.org/betagems
Instructions for setting this up can be found at:
http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/18#page81
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