Tirofinale

'Tiro finale!' to build ruby native extension.

This is experimental gem and not work fine yet for any enviroment and gem.

# gem install tirofinale

Alpine Linux from v2.6 to v3.4 only.

$ tirofinale --help
Usage: tirofinale [options]
        --dependency
        --dist-version VERSION
        --gem GEM_NAME
        --pretty-print
        --debug-local-aports PATH

Default output format is optimized for shell. You can install required packages to install nokogiri gem following lines.

# apk add `tirofinale --gem nokogiri`
# gem install nokogiri # successful!

Human friendry output format gettable by specifying --pretty-print option.

$ tirofinale --gem nokogiri --pretty-print
This environment require following packages to install gem 'nokogiri'.
    ruby-dev
    libxml2-dev
    libxslt-dev

Tirofinale read /etc/alpine-release file and detect Alpine Linux version automatically. If you want to specify version manually, you can use --dist-version VERSION option.

$ tirofinale --dist-version 3.4 --gem nokogiri

Tirofinale resolve dependency of a gem to gems when specify --dependency option.

For example, thin gem depends on daemons gem, eventmachine gem and rack gem. openssl-dev package is required to install eventmachine gem on Alpine Linux.

Folowing example, Tirofinale show distribution packages required by installing thin gem and thin gem depends to gems.

$ tirofinale --gem thin --dependency --pretty-print
This environment require following packages to install gem 'thin'.
    ruby-dev
    openssl-dev
    ruby

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.