More 1.9.3 fun

[Mo Morsi]

On 01/20/2012 03:58 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Dne 19.1.2012 21:52, Mo Morsi napsal(a):
>> On 01/19/2012 03:16 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So, obviously the bundle can't find the C extension.  According to
>>>> some research, I see this on rubygems.org
>>>>
>>>> "This works because rubygems copies the shared object from ext to lib
>>>> when the gem is installed."
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure that's happening.
>>>
>>>
>>> Actually that's happening, just a bit differently. You see that you 
>>> have the 
>>> '/usr/local/lib/gems/exts/sqlite3-1.3.5/lib/sqlite3/sqlite3_native.so' 
>>> so it is in libs and if you run "$ ruby -r sqlite3 -e "puts 'it 
>>> works'"", RubyGems should prepare the load paths and everything 
>>> should work.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately Bundler does not use RubyGems to prepare the load 
>>> paths and it is doing everything by itself. Therefore Bundler 
>>> doesn't know about this modifications we made to RubyGems and cannot 
>>> load the library properly. Moreover, Bundler replace the RubyGems 
>>> modified 'require' by the Ruby's original version, so RubyGems 
>>> cannot help here.
>>>
>>> We are looking into Bundler now to find a cure. Unfortunately, that 
>>> means you will not be able to use stock Bundler in Fedora anymore. 
>>> The only option is to push the RubyGems modifications upstream [1], 
>>> and later push the changes into Bundler's upstream. However, 
>>> RubyGems upstream is not very responsive in this matter. May be you 
>>> can try to support us a bit.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, seems to be a pretty big blocker. The new paths should allow us 
>> to use both the version of bundler shipped via rpm and bundler if 
>> installed via gem.
>>
>> We can push for different practices upstream but that is quite an 
>> effort w/ no guarantees, and most likely won't be implemented by F17. 
>> If we can't figure out a solution to get bundler working at a 
>> technical level, this will have to push the 1.9.3 release back.
>>
>
> To clarify things a bit, RubyGems as they are prepared for F17, will 
> install your custom gems into your home directory. If you are doing 
> so, Bundler should have no issues. If you want to deploy your 
> application, it is best if you are going with RPM packaged gems, 
> including RPM Bundler. If you are going to install gems system-wide, 
> using gem install as a root, you are "asking for troubles" (yes, it is 
> a bit exaggerated :)) and you should know what are you doing.
>
>
> Vit
>

The problem is, installing gems system-wide as root is a valid use case, 
which is often practised in the upstream ruby community. Putting 
comments aside on the wisdom of such practices, I've seen many ruby 
applications instruct the user to install dependencies via 'sudo gem 
install'.

If this use case is broken under Fedora 17, this will be a regression as 
far as our community's support. This is a big enough blocker that we 
can't accept it, so we'll need to figure out a solution or hold off the 
release until one is engineered. I don't forsee this taking too long, 
even if it involves some guidelines or upstream bundler work, though may 
cause us to miss the F17 target.

   -Mo