Make ruby gem executable

Question

I have built a ruby gem but I need to make it executable so it could be run from the terminal. I have googled and found that I need to make a file inside the

bin/

directory, require my library and then call whatever I need from it. Also I tried

chmod +x bin/myfile

to make it executable but nothing worked.Basically, I have followed this link but nothing worked.

In the bin directory, I have already a

console

and

setup

along with my newly created file which is as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby



require "sys_libs"

s = SysLibs

Here's the

.gemspec

file:

spec.files         = `git ls-files -z`.split("\x0").reject do |f|

    f.match(%r{^(test|spec|features)/})

  end

spec.bindir        = "exe"

spec.executables   = spec.files.grep(%r{^bin/}) { |f| f[3..-1] }

spec.require_paths = ["lib"]

Anytime I try to change the executable, I get stuck with failed build. Any idea what else am I missing so far?

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Answer 1

The spec.bindir = "exe" attribute should be spec.bindir = 'bin'.

spec.bindir        = 'bin'
spec.executables   = ['myfile']

Note that bindir is optional.

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