rake gems:build when deploying code that requires native gems

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi,

I've vendored my gems using rake gems:unpack:dependencies and can rake gems:build on my development machine to take care of the gems (rdiscount, nokogiri) with native code.

When it comes to production deployment is it expected that I should run rake gems:build as a part of each (capistrano) deployment?

Is there a way to avoid that?

Thanks,

-Tim

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Dunno about _avoiding_ it (without just installing the gems on the server, and de-vendoring them), but you can trivially automate it.

In your deploy.rb:

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Thanks Jacob,

can you explain what’s going on with the BUILD_GEMS environment variable?

Is that set somewhere already or is that there so I can call:

BUILD_GEMS=0 cap deploy

to avoid building the gems?

-Tim

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Option B.