ruby rails, gem packages
Michael Stahnke
mastahnke at gmail.com
Mon Oct 26 14:15:31 UTC 2009
Giving on packaging ruby because "it's hard" seems like a horrible
idea. The primary reason I use an RPM based distro is to not have
CPAN, eggs, Pear, PECL, and gems all over the place. Yes, developers
like the newest stuff and commonly grab it from rubyforge or github.
But as system managers we have some control over what is put into
production and how to recreate the system if it has problems. I think
we should absolutely be trying to get every gem packaged that is
needed. It's the right thing to do. I'd like one package system. If
I wanted everything to be pulled from and built form source, I would
run BSD. I don't want that. I want a repeatable and enforced-state
system. I need packages. The nice thing about the package is that if
you don't want them, you certainly don't have to use them.
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