Package Management

RingoJS comes with a simple tool for installing packages. It can be run using the ringo-admin command with install as first argument. The install task takes a URL of a zip file containing the package to install as argument.

To install a package from the web:

ringo-admin install http://site.com/foo/foo.zip

There is a convenient shortcut for installing packages from a Github repository that allows you to just specify the Github user and repository name:

ringo-admin install robi42/ringo-hibernate

This will fetch and install the current zipball of the repository's master branch, e.g. http://github.com/robi42/ringo-hibernate/zipball/master.

Theoretically, RingoJS also supports installing Narwhal as a package and using Narwhal's Tusk tool to manage and install packages. Unfortunately, this broke with our recent update of the filesystem module to the latest CommonJS Filesystem/A proposal so it currently won't work. Of course you can still install any compatible Narwhal package using ringo-admin install!

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