Alexey Verkhovsky wrote: > RubyWorks is a yum repository (collection of binary RPM packages) that > provides all software components needed to host a Rails application on > a RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 or CentOS 4, pre-configured and ready to > go.
This is very cool, and is something I myself was considering doing. Thanks much for providing this to the world! Since you asked for feedback, though, I've got some. :-) I dislike managing Rails with gems on systems with package management. I feel the same way about Perl and CPAN, for what it's worth. What I've been doing for our internal Rails hosting is basically converting the gems to RPMs, pushing them to our Rails yum repo (which also has updated Ruby packages, along with gems itself), and then doing "yum install ruby-rubygems-rails" which pulls in Acti(ve|on).*, Ruby, rubygems, etc. It's worked very well for us so far, especially since all we need to do to update our web hosting boxes is push the packages to the production Rails yum repo and wait for the nightly yum update to run at ~4AM. It is more work for me to do this and maintain these packages, and it's a bit of a hassle pulling all the gems together, but I throw a day at it when a new Rails release comes out, I put those in our test Rails repo, tell our developers to update their development boxes (most of which point at the test repo anyway), and let me know what breaks. Is this simply something RubyWorks doesn't do /yet/, or is this an area where we differ in opinion on how things should be done? I'd love to chat with you about this at RailsConf but I unfortunately couldn't make it there this time around. Besides, we can hit a wider audience on the mailing lists anyway. Thanks, Jeff --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-deployment@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
