On 22/01/10 at 17:57 -0000, Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen wrote: > I've nominated this for server-papercuts. Although it's not that > important, it's sort of annoying that ruby scripts can't deal with > curses properly when using 1.9. It means no diakonos, but worse: no io > terminal based ruby scripts. > > Also, outside of this bug scope, (i'm sorry to put this here) but I > would like the server guys to try to get the ruby platform together. > Debian has completely ____ up their ruby support. > > My suggestion is quite simple. Make ruby default to 1.9.2 > And create a ruby-passenger-apache metapackage. One that actually works. > This would install passenger, ruby, gem and configure apache. > > Just because we can do apt-get install rails, doesn't mean it's wise and > EVERYBODY is advising against it. > > For your information to current workaround EVERBODY uses for ruby now is: > - install build-essentials, apache dev-headers > - download ruby > - compile and install ruby yourself (which by default includes gem now) > - gem install passenger > - passenger-install-apache module > > What it should be like: > - apt-get install ruby1.9.2 gem1.9.2 > - apt-get install apache-module-passenger > - gem install rails > > Rails shouldn't be packaged. Sites we make or share don't work with rails. > They work with a specific version of rails. Gem can install any version > side-by-side. > > Oh now, we are at it, diakonos has a new upstream version as well that fixes > a few annoying bugs. > Diakonos should be a great contenter for default text-editor on the ubuntu > server platform. > (it has all the nice vim features, but defaults to keybindings of gedit/kedit > .. ) > Diakonos requires 1.9.2 .. btw .. i don't know why current package depends on > ruby1.8 (it's a mistake) > > Please, for the LTS release, make ruby support less of nightmare. > We would be even better off with not having any ruby related package in the > repositories, if you can't fix the current ones, because that would save a > lot of people a lot of time.
Thank you for this great off-topic and useless contribution. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [email protected] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [email protected] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- Ruby 1.9.0 curses Alt-key handling broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/393888 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
