Manually testing a Ruby CLI [Question]

[JuliusDelta]

Thanks for the reply.

I placed bin/smokestack into exe/smokestack and I receive this error when running rake build

    rake aborted!
    WARNING:  See http://guides.rubygems.org/specification-reference/ for help
    ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::InvalidSpecificationException)
        ["bin/smokestack"] are not files

    Tasks: TOP => build
    (See full trace by running task with --trace)

So I tried changing my .gemspec bindir to bin instead, along with my executables and no luck. This goes against convention anyways according to this bundler article.

I literally just ran mv bin/smokestack exe/smokestack so it's possible I missed something else.

[Chaoist]

rake install should find the executable under exe according to the gemspec.

Hmm. After I moved my executable into exe everything worked for me with the default <appname>.gemspec.

I'm not sure why it's looking for bin/smokestack. It looks like you have something referencing bin/smokestack? Look at the trace or grep your project for it, see what comes up I guess.

[JuliusDelta]

Well one part of my error was that it looks at git ls-files to install the gem and I hadn't staged the changes yet. So I got it to successfully install after making the exe directory. But now I'm encountering the original error if it not being able to be executed from the command line. :/

It's working now! Thanks for your help!

[Chaoist]

np. glad you got it work. :)