https://github.com/terceiro/gemwatch

Watch rubygems.org and download gems converted to tarballs
https://github.com/terceiro/gemwatch

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Watch rubygems.org and download gems converted to tarballs

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/terceiro/gemwatch
• Owner: terceiro
• License: agpl-3.0
• Created: 2010-04-22T13:28:59.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2010-05-15T14:34:33.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-04-12T09:34:58.245Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage: http://gemwatch.heroku.com/
• Size: 125 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • License: COPYING

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README

        
gemwatch - Watch rubygems.org and download gems converted to tarballs

=====================================================================

Introduction

------------

This application was designed to help Debian developers in tracking Ruby

software released only as rubygems.

Usage in Debian watch files

---------------------------

Debian package maintainers can use the following syntax in their watch files to

be properly warned of new upstream releases::

  version=3

  http://gemwatch.heroku.com/${gem} /download/${gem}-(.*)\.tar\.gz

Gem conversion to tarball

-------------------------

A gem named ``mygem-0.1.0.gem`` is converted in a tarball with the following

steps::

  mkdir mygem-0.1.0

  cd mygem-0.1.0

  wget ...../mygem-0.1.0.gem

  tar xf mygem-0.1.0.gem

  tar xzf data.tar.gz

  xcat metadata.gz > metadata.yml

  rm -f mygem-0.1.0.gem data.tar.gz metadata.gz

  cd ..

  tar czf mygem-0.1.0.tar.gz mygem-0.1.0

This way:

* The tarball contains all the files the gem contains

* The gem metadata ends up in a file named ``metadata.yml`` inside the tarball

Running as CGI

--------------

* Create a symlink pointing to the ``cgi`` script into your ``cgi-bin`` directory. The symlink can be named as you wish.

* Make sure gemwatch's ``public`` directory is accessible as ``/gemwatch``

* Example:

** ``http://mysite.com/cgi-bin/gemwatch``, where ``gemwatch`` is a symlink to gemwatch's ``cgi`` script

** ``http://mysite.com/gemwatch`` is a symlink (or an alias) to gemwatch's ``public`` directory.

License

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Copyright © 2010, Antonio Terceiro 

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License

along with this program.  If not, see .