Ok then, if I leave out rubygems and include rvm, can you make a script that will automatically do all the stuff in the best possible way....that I can use from a terminal window?
________________________________ From: Bryan Larsen <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 8:00 PM Subject: Re: [Hobo Users] Re: 1.3 Cookbook Beta rubygems do not fit nicely inside of debian packages. For instance, you can install Hobo 1.0 and 1.0.1 simultaneously. apt doesn't allow that. There are several other problems. There are tons of flame wars on the web throwing accusations back and forth. Here's one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=386036 This makes it hard to distribute ruby GUI programs[1]. Luckily there are very few ruby GUI programs. Which is the chicken, which is the egg? Instead, Ruby tends to be used to develop web apps and for development, both of which have requirements different than widespread software distribution. For software development, you want to have one or more sandboxes so you can work on bleeding edge code without breaking all of the other apps on your system. For that, the current best practice is RVM installed into the user's home directories, which a debian package does not do. In other words, even if rubygems and dpkg were better integrated, you'd be better off installing via RVM than via apt-get or the Software Center. Deploying to a server is a different story altogether. The easy answer there is Heroku. Bryan [1] Hard is relative. It's still easier to do than it is on Windows. And OSX does it wrong, too, but makes different mistakes. On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Arthur Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, probably rubygems should be > used, but why can't it be used from within a meta package designed for The > Software Center? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en.
