gemspec, with rake-compiler dependency

[mcandre]

Could we get a gemspec specifying a rake-compiler dependency? This would help mysql-gem contributors install the right packages.

[luislavena]

I'm not very fond to commit to the codebase generated code (being the gemspec a generated piece of code). However, how ruby and its dependencies are used have changed a lot, and the tooling around those.

In the gemspec, rake-compiler is marked as dependency, however the combination with Hoe (or perhaps the way I'm using it) is not working for everybody.

I'm going to work this weekend in switch current task organization and gem tasks.

Will keep this open until I workout these details.

Thank you for the feedback.

[mcandre]

Ah, I just noticed that :P. I was getting an error during rake test complaining that rake-compiler was not installed, so I figured a gemspec was the thing. But I understand now that the gemspec should be automatically generated and processed...