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Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby 2
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Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby 2

by David B. Copeland
November 2013
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 9m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Distributing Without RubyGems

Many servers are tightly managed, and installing gems via RubyGems is not an option. System administrators of such systems prefer to have a single way of getting code onto the server, using the packaging system provided by the operating system. This complicates our job of making our apps easily deployable. Distributing gems in such environments is hard but not impossible.

To demonstrate how you might do this, we’ll walk through packaging our gem as an RPM, which can be used with Red Hat’s yum distribution system.

RPM is the package management system used by many Linux distributions such as Red Hat, Fedora, and CentOS. Creating an RPM can be done using gem2rpm.[41] First, install it (this can be done anywhere, ...

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