Towards a Fedora Ruby appserver

[Robin Bowes]

On 28/10/10 15:43, Michael Stahnke wrote:
> 
> I'd say there is quite a different audience between ruby user (puppet,
> redmine or something) vs a ruby developer.

Yes, I would agree. The point I was trying to make is that the average
ruby user just wants to be able to do "yum install app-that-uses-ruby"
and for it to work. They are not bothered about the same issues that
devs are. Therefore, I think Fedora should default to this (what I
perceive to be) most common use-case, but also make it easy to use rvm
as well/instead.

> If you look at the rails rumble from 2 weeks ago, less than 2% of
> systems used were Fedora/CentOS.  That's quite sad.  Most used Ubuntu,
> and I am guessing just installed ruby gems and built the rest from
> source, as Ubuntu's ruby stack IMHO, is in worse shape than that of
> Fedora.

I would imagine that's largely due to Ubuntu's percevied "coolness" and
the fact that CentOS/RHEL/Fedora has a very old Ruby version. Indeed,
some projects won't support ruby 1.8.6 making it difficult to use them
on Fedora/CentOS. For example, capistrano. This statement from the
maintainer on ruby 1.8.6:

"it is effectively obsolete; and given it's age, and the catalog of
problems I certainly won't go out of my way to support it here."

R.
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