Fedora / Ruby 1.9 appliance

[Mohammed Morsi]

Just figured I'd share this here incase anyone is interested but not 
subscribed to Fedora Planet.

http://mo.morsi.org/blog/node/316

I just released a Fedora based virtual appliance w/ a Ruby 1.9.1 based 
rpm stack. To get there I managed to get ruby-shadow to compile against 
Ruby 1.9.1, released updated rubygems and rubygem-rake packages 
compatible w/ Ruby 1.9 (they are just empty packages now which depend on 
Ruby, as Ruby 1.9 ships w/ gem & rake), and pushed alot of updates to my 
polisher and polisher-scripts projects.

http://github.com/movitto/polisher
http://github.com/movitto/polisher-scripts

All updated rpms were built in mock against the Ruby 1.9 rpm, so when 
you run a ruby-gnome app for example, your running against the latest 
gnome2 lib that ships w/ Fedora as well as the Ruby 1.9 libraries.

To start the appliance, simply extract the tarball and run "sudo 
virt-image polisher-devel.xml". Then simply bring up virt-manager for 
graphical access to the vm.

Many thanks to all on this list for all the work so far which I 
leveraged to build this appliance. There is alot more todo, I want to 
eventually get every Ruby project in Fedora built against 1.9.1, and try 
to get a Ruby 1.8.7 appliance up and running, but this should help 
anyone looking to start running software against a native Fedora/Ruby 
1.9.1 stack.

Enjoy.

    -Mo