packaging gem tests

Ken Dreyer ktdreyer at ktdreyer.com
Wed Apr 25 22:49:07 UTC 2012


I'm wondering about how to handle things like the Rakefile, or /spec,
or /test directories in rubygem packages. My inclination is to leave
these out of the package to keep it slimmer, but I see that some
rubygems do include them in the package (or at least the -doc
subpackage). The example on the Ruby packaging guidelines also
includes these in -doc.

Are these files really that useful to ship to end users?

- Ken


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