My answer is kind of "don't run 2 versions; everything should be on 1.9.2 
anyway." :)

I realise that's idealised, but I do think it's OK for there to be a cost to 
running legacy stuff.

But that's a different discussion altogether. As for an actual answer, I'd just 
use a separate server. If they're big apps they should have their own servers 
anyway, and if they're small, a little VPS is cheap (less than an hour's work 
per month; i.e. it would cost more to configure multiple rubies).

—Ben


On 28/07/2011, at 2:15 PM, Dmytrii Nagirniak wrote:

> Michael, Ben,
> 
> I see what you mean now.
> 
> In case of "toy" production env (which most of us has) - I guess it doesn't
> matter that much.
> 
> For the "real" large environment involving a lot of setup, maintenance and
> many people - it's a difference.
> But in the latter scenario it would probably be a single app for the company
> with one Ruby version. So RVM is just a wrong tool anyway.
> 
> But what other options do we have to run 2 ruby versions?
> 
> 
> On 28 July 2011 14:07, Ben Hoskings <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I don't mean setup difficulty - I agree RVM is really easy to set up.
>> 
>> I mean, if you have path issues on the production box, or something else
>> breaking the ruby runtime, it's an order of magnitude easier to debug if RVM
>> isn't involved, because there's no shell fiddling going on.
>> 
>> 
>> On 28/07/2011, at 1:53 PM, Dmytrii Nagirniak wrote:
>> 
>>>> Ahh, reading Ivan's message, it's obvious now - to automatically select
>> a
>>>> ruby per project.
>>>> Are there other common uses?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I think that's the primary one.
>>> 
>>> Ben, in terms of complexity, maybe I am missing something, but installing
>>> RVM took me the least amount of time.
>>> 
>> http://blog.approache.com/2011/05/setting-up-ubuntu-1104-server-for-rails.html
>>> 
>>> And later installing Ruby was a breath. I don't really feel like it adds
>>> complexity.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> —Ben
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 28/07/2011, at 1:33 PM, Simon Russell wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I work with Michael Pearson; I'm one of the people who torments him by
>>>>> insisting on checking in .rvmrc files.  I'm probably also one of the
>>>>> people who doesn't have a problem with RVM in production, but I
>>>>> haven't tried using some of the more recent releases.  Certainly the
>>>>> random changes don't help.  It seems that if Wayne stopped insisting
>>>>> people always use the latest version, it wouldn't be such a problem to
>>>>> automate.
>>>>> 
>>>>> As for .rvmrc, I haven't yet heard a good reason why checking it in is
>>>>> bad, and I can think of a few reasons it's convenient.  I can be
>>>>> convinced though; and I haven't done a lot of searching to find
>>>>> opinions conflicting with mine :)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Simon.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 13:15, Julio Cesar Ody <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Which is what I said on the first email I sent to the thread. Michael
>>>>>> was talking specifically about sandboxing gems.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Thursday, July 28, 2011, Dmytrii Nagirniak <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 28 July 2011 12:25, Julio Cesar Ody <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> @ Michael: agreed, that's what Bundler is for. Again, should you
>>>>>>> always run your apps on the same version of Ruby, it is a waste of
>>>>>>> time.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> That's not why RVM exists. If everything you run is on one ruby
>> version
>>>> then there's no point of using RVM at all.In this case RVM is a tool
>> that
>>>> solves no problem.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> But if you do need multiple versions of Ruby - RVM is the right tool
>>>> for the job.
>>>>>>> At least that's my view on it.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Pat Allan <
>> [email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> I don't like the idea of checked-in .rvmrc files at all - granted, I
>>>> don't work with any large teams though :)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Pat
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 28/07/2011, at 12:15 PM, Michael Pearson wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> The .rvmrc thing was the easiest to work around, and if we'd really
>>>> needed them, I would have either hacked/forked RVM. I'm the only
>> developer
>>>> at my work that thinks that .rvmrc checked into a repo is a bad idea :)
>>>> (gemsets? that's what bundler is for! and we're all using ruby-1.9.2
>>>> anyway!)
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> It was the constant changes to the install process / defaults that
>>>> killed it for me.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Julio Cesar Ody <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Yeah, I read it.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>> 
>> http://serverfault.com/questions/227510/is-it-possible-to-skip-rvmrc-confirmation
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
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