Keith's Blog

This is why people get annoyed about the silly gem install dependency mess (esp WRT hoe):

$ gem install heckle
Need to update 31 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org   # fair enough, you're allowed
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complete
Install required dependency ruby2ruby? [Yn]  Y    # Yeah, I know you need these
Install required dependency ParseTree? [Yn]  Y     # oh, and this one too
Select which gem to install for your platform (i686-linux)
 1. ParseTree 2.1.1 (ruby)                                   # yeah, just a vanilla ruby here
 2. ParseTree 2.1.1 (i386-mswin32)
 3. ParseTree 2.1.0 (ruby)
 4. ParseTree 2.0.2 (ruby)
 5. Skip this gem
 6. Cancel installation
> 1
Install required dependency RubyInline? [Yn]  Y   # This is also needed, I gather 
Install required dependency hoe? [Yn]  Y             # Ha, hoe again, OK
Install required dependency rubyforge? [Yn] Y     # Don't care, don't understand why both
Install required dependency rake? [Yn]  Y            # There's no rake on this box, really?
Install required dependency hoe? [Yn]  Y             # WTF, yeah, I just said that
Install required dependency hoe? [Yn]  Y             # .. now you're just fucking with me
Install required dependency ZenTest? [Yn] Y        # Huh? I like ZenTest, but there's no reason...
Install required dependency hoe? [Yn]  Y             # **** YOU, hoe!
Successfully installed heckle-1.4.1
Successfully installed ruby2ruby-1.1.8
....

The fourth time it asked me, it decided to trust me and actually starting installing the gems….

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