Question on gem dependencies

[Bill Barbour]

Hello,

If you have some Ruby code that has hooks into a native library, is there a way to validate that native library exists on the target platform that the gem is being installed to?

Thanks!

[Jason Porter]

I don't know if there is or not, I do know that the majority of the database gems use native code. I haven't seen one yet that verifies if the libraries are there or not, it just dies when it tries to create bindings to the libraries. I'm curious to know if some else has a better answer.

[Prabhakar Chaganti]

I have not seen any gem yet that checks to see if the required libs are there. A case in point being the rmagick gem which needs imagemagick installed. The installation usually fails with a ruby stack trace about something missing.

[David Berube]

I imagine it's doable, but I've yet to see it done.

Take it easy,

Dave