bundler-download - Bundler Plugin - v1.4.0

Bundler plugin for auto-downloading extra gem files (e.g. large file downloads) specified in Downloadfile after bundle install

The Ruby Gem ecosystem, famous for gems like Rails for web development, Devise for authentication, and Pundit for authorization, enables productivity via code reuse. As such, it is great for quickly adding libraries to your project to automate part of the work or reuse other people's solutions to solved problems.

That said, you would not want to package extremely large files, like the OpenAI GPT-3 175 billion parameter models, in a Ruby Gem.

Enter bundler-download, a Bundler Plugin that enables downloading extra gem files after installing with bundle by declaring downloads in a Downloadfile

Apps and gems can add a Downloadfile at the root to declare the need for extra downloads upon install by Bundler.

Apps can then bundle in addition to installing the bundler-download Bundler plugin as per instructions below. Afterwards, when running bundle again, bundle-download will automatically download extra files mentioned in Downloadfile, whether it is in the app directly or in a gem dependency.

If a Ruby Gem needs to depend on gems that have a Downloadfile, it can declare dependency in .gemspec just as usual.

An app can add a Downloadfile at the root '.' path and declare a Gemfile dependency on bundler-download directly:

gem 'bundler-download', '~> 1.4'

Alternatively, an app can depend on a gem that depends on bundler-download as per Gem Instructions.

Finally, follow App Bundler Plugin Instructions to obtain downloads.

Add bundler-download as a standard .gemspec dependency:

s.add_dependency('bundler-download', ["~> 1.4"])

Afterwards, ensure there is a Downloadfile at the root directory of the gem, including in .gemspec files:

    s.files = [
    # ...
      "Downloadfile",
    # ...
    ]

Finally, follow one of two options for having applications obtain downloads:

1. Advertise that apps must install bundler-download as a Bundler plugin as per the App Bundler Plugin Instructions below.
2. Use the API to automatically trigger downloads on first use of your gem features.

An app or gem Downloadfile contains download links for files that need to be downloaded relative to the gem directory after bundle install.

Downloadfile entries follow this format (keyword args are optional):

download url, to: app_or_gem_subdirectory, os: os

Example Downloadfile:

download 'http://dl.maketechnology.io/chromium-cef/rls/repository/plugins/com.make.chromium.cef.gtk.linux.x86_64_0.4.0.202005172227.jar' # downloads into gem root directory
download 'http://dl.maketechnology.io/chromium-cef/rls/repository/plugins/com.make.chromium.cef.cocoa.macosx.x86_64_0.4.0.202005172227.jar',
  to: 'cef' # downloads into 'cef' directory under the gem installation directory
download 'http://dl.maketechnology.io/chromium-cef/rls/repository/plugins/com.make.chromium.cef.win32.win32.x86_64_0.4.0.202005172227.jar',
  to: 'cef/windows', os: 'windows' # downloads into 'cef/windows' directory under the gem installation directory in Windows OS only

The keyword download declares a file to download and takes the following arguments:

1. Download URL string
2. to: keyword arg: mentions a local download path relative to the app or gem installation directory (e.g. 'vendor' or 'lib/ai/data'). It automatically creates the path with all its subdirectories if it does not already exist. If left empty, then the file is downloaded to the app or gem directory root path.
3. os: keyword arg (value: mac / windows / linux): limits the operating system under which the download is made. It is nil by default, allowing the download to occur in all operating systems.

In plugin mode, all gems declared in Gemfile are inspected for presence of Downloadfile regardless of what group they belong to.

Additionally, the app '.' path is insepected for Downloadfile at the root of the app.

An app can depend on a gem that has a Downloadfile by including in Gemfile

Whether Downloadfile lives in app directly or one of its gems, start by running bundle in the app root directory:

bundle

Afterwards install the bundler-download plugin via:

bundle plugin install bundler-download

Finally, bundle one extra time to activate the bundler-download plugin:

bundle

You should see something like this:

$ bundle
Using array_include_methods 1.0.2
Using bundler 2.1.4
Using download 1.1.0
Using mime-types-data 3.2020.0512
Using mime-types 3.3.1
Using multi_xml 0.6.0
Using httparty 0.18.1
Using strings-ansi 0.1.0
Using tty-cursor 0.7.1
Using tty-screen 0.8.1
Using unicode-display_width 1.7.0
Using tty-progressbar 0.17.0
Using bundler-download 1.4.0
Using facets 3.1.0
Using glimmer 1.0.0
bundle-download plugin gem-after-install-all hook:
Processing /Users/User/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.1@tmp/gems/glimmer-1.0.0/Downloadfile
Download URL: https://equo-chromium-cef.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/rls/repository/plugins/com.make.chromium.cef.gtk.linux.x86_64_0.4.0.202005172227.jar
Download size: 57742279
Download path: /Users/User/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.1@tmp/gems/glimmer-1.0.0/com.make.chromium.cef.gtk.linux.x86_64_0.4.0.202005172227.jar
Downloading 100% (  0s ) [========================================================]
Download URL: https://equo-chromium-cef.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/rls/repository/plugins/com.make.chromium.cef.cocoa.macosx.x86_64_0.4.0.202005172227.jar
Download size: 54070695
Download path: /Users/User/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.1@tmp/gems/glimmer-1.0.0/cef/com.make.chromium.cef.cocoa.macosx.x86_64_0.4.0.202005172227.jar
Downloading 26% ( 59s ) [==============                                      ]

After the initial download of files, running bundle again will keep existing downloads without overwriting them unless you use the bundle-download command to manually redownload files again.

If you would like to redownload files for all gems again, overwriting existing downloads, simply run:

bundle download

If you only want to download files if they did not exist already, you could run:

bundle download --keep-existing

Example printout:

Downloading /Users/User/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.1@bundler-download/gems/glimmer-cw-browser-chromium-1.0.0/Downloadfile
Download '/Users/User/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.1@bundler-download/gems/glimmer-cw-browser-chromium-1.0.0/vendor/jars/mac/com.make.chromium.cef.cocoa.macosx.x86_64_0.4.0.202005172227.jar' already exists! (run `bundle download` to redownload)

If you want to download files for all operating systems (including ones other than the current platform), you could run:

bundle download --all-operating-systems

Run the help subcommand (or usage) to bring up usage instructions:

bundle download help

Prints:

== bundler-download - Bundler Plugin - v1.4.0 ==

Commands/Subcommands/Options:
  bundle download help                     # Provide help by printing usage instructions
  bundle download usage                    # (alias for help)
  bundle download start                    # Start downloads for current operating system
  bundle download                          # (alias for start)
  bundle download --all-operating-systems  # Download files for all operating systems
  bundle download --keep-existing          # Do not redownload already downloaded files
  bundle download clear                    # Clear downloads by deleting them under all gems
  bundle download clean                    # (alias for clear)
  bundle download list                     # List downloads by printing Downloadfile content for all gems
  bundle download show                     # Show downloaded files for all gems

Run the clear subcommand to clear downloads by deleting them under all gems:

bundle download clear

Example printout:

Clearing /Users/User/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.1@bundler-download/gems/glimmer-cw-browser-chromium-1.0.0/Downloadfile

Run the list subcommand to list downloads by printing Downloadfile content for all gems:

bundle download list

Example printout:

Listing /Users/User/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.1@bundler-download/gems/glimmer-cw-browser-chromium-1.0.0/Downloadfile
download 'http://dl.maketechnology.io/chromium-cef/rls/repository/plugins/com.make.chromium.cef.gtk.linux.x86_64_0.4.0.202005172227.jar',
  to: 'vendor/jars/linux', os: 'linux'
download 'http://dl.maketechnology.io/chromium-cef/rls/repository/plugins/com.make.chromium.cef.cocoa.macosx.x86_64_0.4.0.202005172227.jar',
  to: 'vendor/jars/mac', os: 'mac'
download 'http://dl.maketechnology.io/chromium-cef/rls/repository/plugins/com.make.chromium.cef.win32.win32.x86_64_0.4.0.202005172227.jar',
  to: 'vendor/jars/windows', os: 'windows'

Run the show subcommand to show downloaded files for all gems:

bundle download show

Example printout:

Showing downloaded files for /Users/User/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.1@bundler-download/gems/glimmer-cw-browser-chromium-1.0.0/Downloadfile
54070695 /Users/User/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.1@bundler-download/gems/glimmer-cw-browser-chromium-1.0.0/vendor/jars/mac/com.make.chromium.cef.cocoa.macosx.x86_64_0.4.0.202005172227.jar

In API mode, only gems belonging to the default group in Gemfile are inspected for presence of Downloadfile by default. An app may change that though by loading other Bundler groups (e.g. Bundler.setup(:default, :developemnt))

Apps may choose to integrate with the bundler-download gem directly to trigger downloads instead of relying on the plugin. This can be useful when wanting to trigger downloads only on first use while staying transparent should the gem features not be used.

To do so, simply include this Ruby code to trigger downloads:

require 'bundler-download'
Bundler::Download.new.exec('download', [])

You can also use the --keep-existing option to avoid redownload if files were there already:

require 'bundler-download'
Bundler::Download.new.exec('download', ['--keep-existing'])

• Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet.
• Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it.
• Fork the project.
• Start a feature/bugfix branch.
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