Attached is an ebuild for ruby's net-ping library. It's just a gem, so it's pretty simple, but you might want to mark it ~x86 untill someone else reporst a successful install. :)
Created attachment 92497 [details] dev-ruby/net-ping ebuild
This package has been tested quite successfully with (on-coming) g-gem, an ebuild generator for gems. Once I release g-gem, I will reconsider this package and add it if g-gem can't handle it.
Reassigning back to maintainer-wanted since Nguyen has retired as a Gentoo developer (#49680).
Created attachment 172368 [details] dev-ruby/net-ping-1.2.2 It worked using Ruby 1.9 but not with Ruby 1.8 and some test failed.
Created attachment 172466 [details] dev-ruby/net-ping-1.2.2 update Also works with Ruby 1.8, just be careful with rubygems' version.
Created attachment 172520 [details] dev-ruby/net-ping-1.2.2 some minor fixes
Is there still any interest to get this into the tree? Please reply, otherwise the bug will be marked as WONTFIX in 30 days from now. 1.7.4 April 16, 2014 seems to be the recent version according to rubygems.
Closing old bug due to no response.