Fedora / Ruby 1.9 appliance

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Mohammed Morsi wrote:
> 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.
> 

Can we have the sources somewhere, and would it be possible to collaborate 
through one or the other koji instance?

-- Jeroen