Quarry is a tool that manages rubygems binary repository for Linux Arch. The binary packages repository hosted at http:https://pkgbuild.com/~anatolik/quarry, currently only 64 bit is supported. If you want to use the quarry repository add following lines to /etc/pacman.conf file:

[quarry]
Server = http:https://pkgbuild.com/~anatolik/quarry/x86_64/

Unlike packages from AUR using the binary repository is better because:

• installing packages from binary repo is much easier and faster.
• quarry packs minimal set of files needed for a user. E.g. rubygems with native extensions contain 3 (three!) copies of the same *.so files, rubygems install a lot of garbage such as test file, readmes, etc..
• quarry handles dependencies correctly.
• a new version appears in Arch repo soon after it is published in rubygems, we are talking about hours latency here.

Source code is hosted at github https://github.com/anatol/quarry and released under GPL3 license.

Quarry manages gems listed in whitelist_packages file plus all dependencies of these packages. If you want to see your package in the binary repo add it to https://github.com/anatol/quarry/blob/master/whitelist_packages

Converting a gem into binary Arch package is simple and straighforward for most gems. Some rubygems need additional configuration. This specific information is stored in config.pkg/$PACKAGE.yaml config files. These are YAML files with following fields:

• depends - array of additional dependencies. Quarry extracts ruby dependencies from gem specification file, but if you want to add native dependencies you should list it here.
• makedepends - array of additional makedepends.
• optdepends - a map of optional dependencies. It has the same structure as PKGBUILD optdepends field - (dependency, description).
• include - by default Quarry copies only bin and lib gem directories. If you want to copy other files/directories then add it here.
• rename - a map of pairs that rename files in /usr/bin/. Most rubygems files are kept in rubygems specific folders under /usr/lib/ruby/gems. But some rubygems create files under /usr/bin and such files can conflict with popular packages. To avoid this we added mechanism to prevent conflict by renaming files in /usr/bin. This config option is map of 'from_name: to_name' renames.

If slot version has no config then it checks config for less specific slot. E.g. if there was a slot version rails-3.2.6 then it would check configs for rails-3.2.6, rails-3.2, rails-3, rails until it finds an existing file.

If gem requires patching then you can add $PACKAGE.patch file and it will be applied automatically before installing the gem.

File rebuild_packages contains list of gems to force rebuild with new pkgrel. It might be useful if e.g. configuration for the gem has changed.