The way ruby loads gems and keeps track of their paths seems to not
always work very well when the gems are accessed through
symlinks. Ruby will then complain that the same files are loaded
multiple times; it relies on the file's full path to determine whether
the file is loaded or not.
This adds an option to simply copy all gem files into the environment
instead, which gets rid of this issue, but may instead result in major
file duplication.
This wasn't really an issue until the latest minor release of Bundix
(2.4), because prior to then Bundix didn't emit group attributes, and so
this functionality of bundlerEnv wasn't really used. However, it is now
apparent that a better default for bundlerEnv would be to include all
gem groups by default, not just the default group. This matches the
behavior of Bundler, and makes more sense, because the default group
alone isn't necessarily useful for anything -- consider a Rails app with
production, development, and test groups. It has the additional benefit
of being backwards compatible with how this would have worked before the
Bundix update.
It would be reasonable to have a Ruby program that depends on some other
program being in the PATH. In this case, the obvious thing to do would
be something like this:
bundlerApp {
# ...
buildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
postBuild = ''
wrapProgram "$out/bin/foo" \
--prefix PATH : ${lib.makeBinPath [ dep ]}
'';
}
However, this doesn't work, because even though it just forwards most of
its arguments to `runCommand`, `bundlerApp` won't take a `buildInputs`
parameter. It doesn't even specify its own `buildInputs`, which means
that the `scripts` parameter to `bundlerApp` (which depends on
`makeWrapper`) is completely broken, and, as far as I can tell, has been
since its inception. I've added a `makeWrapper` build input if the
scripts parameter is present to fix this.
I've added a `buildInputs` option to `bundlerApp`. It's also passed
through to bundled-common because `postBuild` scripts are run there as
well. This actually means that in this example we'd end up going through
two layers of wrappers (one from `bundlerApp` and one from
bundled-common), but that has always been the case and isn't likely to
break anything. That oddity does suggest that it might be prudent to
not forward `postBuild` to bundled-common (or to at least use a
different option) though...
FWIW, as far as I can tell no package in nixpkgs uses either the
`scripts` or `postBuild` options to `bundlerApp`.
This fixes the bug introduced by 8686b98612 which broke bundlerEnv
exprs when gemdir was a string (thus making gemset a string by
`gemset = gemdir + "/gemset.nix"`) which made it being treated as a
set.
This allows patching the gemset output by bundix from a default.nix
file, making it easier to perform updates since the bundix update no
longer has to be manually updated.
