Distributing Rails 3 apps

[Mo Morsi]

On 08/05/2011 08:13 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Option 3 is my favorite.

Since bundler serves only to manage package dependencies with gem, 
whereas we are trying to manage them w/ rpm, I agree it makes sense to 
decouple these bits where feasible.

That being said, I'm wondering if this is all this strictly necessary. 
The bundler situation for Rails and other packages already in the yum 
repos is already taken care of.

And as far as the upstream projects we manage, such as Katello and 
Aeolus, we have to select a Ruby stack to work against anyways. That 
ruby stack can be represented in the Gemfile.lock in our git repos, and 
whenever it is time to push a release to Fedora we can patch the 
Gemfile.lock in the rpm spec.

An issue w/ removing bundler from the project is that the Ruby community 
has come to expect this w/ Rails applications. While we have to deviate 
somewhat to conform to Fedora guidelines, staying as close as we can to 
upstream Ruby practices is the best way to making Fedora the most 
relevant platform for Ruby development and to get our own projects 
accepted / used by the wider Ruby community.

Thoughts?

   -Mo