Discourse Plugin Dev: Problems with Discourse Plugin Gem Parser (ruby-openai gemspec dependancy)

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Yesterday I spent most of the try trying to resolve an issue caused by the gem parser in the Discourse plugin methods.

The issue occurred because I was working with the ruby-openai Ruby gem where the owner of the gem specified a gemspec dependency as follows:

 spec.add_dependency "httparty", ">= 0.18.1", "< 0.22.0"

However, Discourse will not parse this in the Discourse plugin code; and so 8 hours later, I found that only one workaround was to "hack" the Gemfile during the container build process, as follows:

## Plugins go here
## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/19157 for details
hooks:
  after_bundle_exec:
    - exec:
        cd: $home
        cmd:
          - echo "Hello Neo"
          - echo "gem 'httparty'" >> Gemfile
          - echo "gem 'ruby-openai'" >> Gemfile
          - su discourse -c 'bundle config unset deployment'
          - su discourse -c 'bundle install --no-deployment --path vendor/bundle --jobs 4 --without test development'

The above hack works. Nothing else worked. Believe me, I tried for 8 hours to accomplish this without hacking the Discourse Gemfile in this manner.

If anyone can get this to work without this messy hack, please post your solution.

Thanks.

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OK. It looks like the developer of the ruby-openai gem has replied to my comment on this issue and plans to modify his code:

See also: