gem-compare: A new tool for tracking upstream changes

[Josef Stribny]

> I opened two issues but so far, the gem is really useful.

I am glad you like it and thank you for the suggestions!

Best Regards
Josef

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Rafaniello" <jrafanie at redhat.com>
To: "Ruby SIG mailing list" <ruby-sig at lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 4:32:13 PM
Subject: Re: gem-compare: A new tool for tracking upstream changes

This is very awesome Josef!

Thanks!

I opened two issues but so far, the gem is really useful.

Note: I didn't have the bundler issue that Vit is reporting.
I'm running from MRI 2.1.2 on OSX via chruby.

https://github.com/strzibny/gem-compare/issues/4
https://github.com/strzibny/gem-compare/issues/5


----- Original Message -----
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to announce the first release of the gem-compare[0] plugin,
> a tool made to simplified the process of updating gems in Fedora.
> 
> Instead of manually fetching and unpacking new gem releases, comparing
> their dependencies, and using grep and diff tools to check the differences
> between the releases I decided to automate this process as much as I can.
> 
> The result was a script that I decided to turn into a RubyGems plugin for
> clarity and ease of use. The main purpose of the tool is to report
> the differences between:
> 
> * gemspec parameters such as license, authors, homepage, ...
> * runtime and development dependencies
> * Gemfile dependencies
> * files including shebangs and permissions modifications
> 
> The usage is as follows:
> $ gem compare rails 3.0.0 4.0.0 -k
> 
> I usually run it in the git directory of the associated Fedora package so
> it downloads the missing new version, unpacks both, run the comparison and
> print the results. I then can go straight to editing the .spec file and
> update what is necessary.
> 
> However, you can use the tool in many other ways, e.g. running:
> $ gem compare rails '>=3.0.0' --runtime
> 
> will reveal that activeresource dependency was dropped in 4.0.0 and
> actionview dependency was added in 4.1.0.
> 
> Please see more examples at GitHub[0] and all valid options with:
> $ gem compare --help
> 
> To install it, simply run:
> 
> $ gem install gem-compare
> 
> Once it's more tested and bugs[1] are resolved I will package it for Fedora.
> I didn't package it yet because it needs one dependency that is not yet in
> Fedora repositories.
> 
> I would like to kindly ask you to help me to test it and tell me what you
> think.
> 
> Best Regards
> Josef
> 
> 
> [0] https://github.com/strzibny/gem-compare
> [1] https://github.com/strzibny/gem-compare/issues
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