Distributing Rails 3 apps

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 11:41:28AM -0400, Mo Morsi wrote:
> >> Is there any way to evolve RPM to handle this sort of scenario?
> >
> > Chris Lalancette and I have been talking about exactly this issue. I'm
> > not 100% sure it's appropriate for Fedora, but I don't think there's
> > any getting around Fedora users' needs to install parallel stacks of
> > application code (RVM, as mind-bogglingly evil as it is, exists to
> > serve a need -- if we could fill that need in a less evil way we would
> > be doing the Ruby world a service, I believe).
> >
> > --Hugh
> 
> Well bundler is supposed to be a way to manage parallel stacks of gems 
> on a per-application basis. We just need to make sure that the 
> Gemfile.lock that ships in our project releases match the rpms being 
> shipped in Fedora.
> 
> In any case, parallel stacks should be straightforward, as they are 
> already exist in Fedora, whether it be via 'compat' packages or putting 
> the version from the name-version-release into the name (such as with 
> python1.9)

The downside to that is that every new release of a gem will require 1)
a new package and 2) a new package review since the name is now directly
coupled to the version of the gem.

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