rpm package for ruby gems

[Aditya Prakash]

Thanks Ken! That was really helpful. I guess I have to wait until Kushal
and my mentor give me a go. I will be packaging a few gems anyway. So, I
will be reading all the doc and wiki available, so far I have been pointed
to these:

1. isitfedoraruby <http://www.isitfedoraruby.com/>
2. Infrastructure/AppBestPractices
<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/AppBestPractices>
3. Packaging:Guidelines
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines>
4. Packaging:Ruby <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Ruby>

Let me know if I am missing out on any other important resource.

Aditya

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:08 AM, Ken Dreyer <ktdreyer at ktdreyer.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Aditya Prakash
> <aditya.prakash132 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How
> > important it is that gems I am using have rpm available? A good amount of
> > development time will be wasted in packaging if this is a requirement.
>
> I've had to take a break from Rails packaging for a while since I
> switched jobs, but I still maintain several rubygems with the hope
> that I'll be able to do more Ruby/Rails packaging eventually. But I've
> been working at it for years, and you're right, packaging each gem
> individually is a mountain of work.
>
> Quick wins are important in a project as big as what you're
> discussing, and when packaging gem-by-gem, it's easy to get bogged
> down. If I were you, I'd break GlitterGallery down into more
> manageable steps:
>
> Phase 1) Create an RPM that more-or-less follows all the packaging
> guidelines, but bundles all its dependencies. You can build/ship this
> RPM via Copr.
>
> Phase 2) Switch your application from using Bundler to using
> https://rubygems.org/gems/bundler_ext
>
> Phase 3) Start dropping your bundled gems one by one and use the
> system gems instead.
>
> In hindsight I wish that I had taken this approach with Gitorious or
> Gitlab, instead of only starting at the base of the dependency tree
> and working my way upwards. It's probably good to work from both
> directions at once. But starting at the top, with the app itself, will
> give you the satisfaction and internal motivation of having something
> that works today, even if it's not up to Fedora's standards.
>
> > Also, how important it is that rpm package are available for ruby gems in
> > general? In name of being a ruby developer and part of fedora community I
> > would like to package a few important ones.
>
> From my own experience, I've found that packaging gems in Fedora is a
> good excuse for learning Ruby, Bundler, Rubygems, Minitest, Rspec, and
> other parts of the Ruby ecosystem that touch on packaging.
>
> - Ken
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