FerrariFlunker is developing a fork of a plugin that requires the discordrb ruby gem, but the latest version on RubyGems (3.4.0) is outdated and buggy. The latest version is available on GitHub, but not published to RubyGems.
merefield clarifies that the GitHub repository is the official one and that the gem document not listing the latest version (3.4.1) is an issue. They suggest referencing the GitHub repository directly, but FerrariFlunker has tried this method without success.
fzngagan provides an example of an official plugin that uses a local copy of a gem and suggests a similar approach. This method involves creating a local copy of the git repository (not a submodule) and including the libdir in the plugin.rb file.
Hello! I’ve been struggling with this for a few days, so any help is appreciated!
I’m developing a fork of a plugin that requires the discordrb ruby gem. For whatever reason, the most up to date version on discordrb | RubyGems.org | your community gem host is 3.4.0, which is about two years old and buggy.
It’s still under active development. Speaking to the developers recently the next version will be out “when it’s done”. Amongst other things they are working on Threading support.
These are the same thing. It’s just that the gem document only claims 3.4.0 as latest. The other is the official repo. If you click the Homepage link on your first link it takes you to your second link ;). I have no idea why the gem document does not list 3.4.1.
I have! I’m pretty sure our plugin is a fork of a fork of that. We require some specific logic in our case, so it makes sense to develop our own version.
What would this look like in the discourse setting? I feel like I’ve tried every method of declaring the dependency via github in plugin.rb already (check our commit history )
Our build fails with every gem syntax I’ve tried that tries to point to the github source. I’m pretty sure it has to do with how discourse/lib/plugin_gem.rb at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub tries to find the .gemspec file for plugin gems. Would you be able to give me the steps for a workaround?
Hi @FerrariFlunker
Here’s in an example of of an official plugin which uses a local copy of the holidays gem. I think you can use a similar pattern in your case.
A local version of the git repo (note: cannot be a submodule, has to be a true local copy) and the libdir inclusion lines worked perfectly! Thank you so much for your help, it’s incredibly appreciated @fzngagan and @merefield
Hopefully this topic will help others find this answer, it’s been quite the journey to figure this out
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