How do you specify in a gem’s gemspec that the gem assumes that “fmt” or “tidy” is installed on the system? These are unix tools and not Ruby gems.
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How do you specify in a gem’s gemspec that the gem assumes that “fmt” or “tidy” is installed on the system? These are unix tools and not Ruby gems.
This is another place where rubygems just lacks…
A few workarounds:
put a message about it in the post_install message
check for it at runtime
check for it at install time by using a fake mkrf_conf.rb http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming/RubyGems#How_to_install_different_versions_of_gems_depending_on_which_version_of_ruby_the_installee_is_using