Recommended way to install Rubygems

[Aldric Giacomoni]

Well.. Gentoo also builds from source, so it tends to have all the
header files! In addition, it doesn't shy away from adding requirements
to ebuilds. I had an issue, in fact, where xemacs kept on being
re-installed on my machine, and I eventually tracked the problem down to
a specific USE flag on my (cue suspenseful music) dev-lang/ruby package.
That's right.. Ruby required xemacs;-) I removed the USE flag and xemacs
never came back.

I agree that we could have a better infrastructure on the Debian side to
deal with that, and automate many of the tasks. None of the problems are
particularly hard, we just all lack time (and motivation to work on a
somehow poisonous issue).

I really think that, in the end, whether to plug into the gems system
(like Gentoo does) or to leave it for manual installs by the user (like
Debian does) is mainly a matter of taste.

This is true.

Btw, I see in the github portage tree that former versions for gems are
apparently no longer available. How do you deal with gems that require a
specific (ancient) version of another gem?

Besides the official portage tree, there are overlays; there is an
overlay dedicated to Ruby, which has much more than the regular tree.
You are right, though - there is a limitation, and the limitation always
is "Who has created an ebuild (or .deb package) for this version of the
gem?"
If the version we need isn't in the tree or the overlay, then either we
create an ebuild for it or we install it with rubygems.

 

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Ah, that's pretty recent, thanks for pointing it out. I look forward to
an EAP-capable freeradius out of the box.


Has it been requested?

http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2982

 

[Robert Dober]

See why I don't want to discuss this? ;-)

Strange, don't you like being insulted? (1)
Anyway as a (thankfull) user of Ruby and Ubuntu I vote against any
preinstalled gem, that is just asking for trouble. For things like
ruby-emacs should that not go into emcas rather?

Cheers
Robert
(1) Depends by whom, I guess .



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