Designed for use with non-system gem location e.g. homebrew or ~/.gems

gistfile1.sh

#
# Try to make up for Ruby's lack of easy setup.py develop sorta thing.
#
 
function fakegem() {
    if [[ `env | grep GEM_HOME` ]]; then
        projects=~/Documents/Code
        for project in `ls -1 $projects`; do
            bin=$projects/$project/bin
            lib=$projects/$project/lib
            # if project seems to be ruby and doesn't exist as an installed gem
            has_ruby=`find $projects/$project -name "*.rb"`
            has_gem=`find $GEM_HOME/gems -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -name "$project*"`
            # and if it's not already in our bin/lib paths
            in_path=`echo $PATH | grep $bin`
            in_lib=`echo $RUBYLIB | grep $lib`
            if ( \
                [[ $has_ruby ]] \
                && [[ ! $has_gem ]] \
                && [[ ! ($in_path || $in_lib) ]] \
            ); then
                # add project/bin to PATH and project/lib to RUBYLIB
                export PATH=$PATH:$bin
                if [[ `env | grep RUBYLIB` ]]; then
                    export RUBYLIB=$RUBYLIB:$lib
                else
                    export RUBYLIB=$lib
                fi
            fi
        done
    fi
}
fakegem