With the Intrepid Feature Freeze deadline fast approaching (August 28th) I thought I'd put out another call for help reviewing the Phusion Passenger package and alterations to the Rubygems package. Without your help reviewing the code, this will not go into Intrepid and Ubuntu will be short of effective Rails support for yet another cycle.
Even if Ruby isn't your first love, can I ask for your help to break the logjam. I have a feeling we're in a bit of a chicken and egg scenario here: there is nobody with review privileges who knows much about Ruby and Rails, so nothing with Ruby and Rails every gets looked at, so there is nobody with review privileges who knows much about Ruby and Rails. Phusion Passenger is a module for Apache that supports both Ruby on Rails and other Rack based Ruby frameworks. It also has experimental support for Python WSGI applications. The packaging bug is here (https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/246719). I need reviews and acks in REVU please to get this uploaded. Rubygems contains 'gem' - the Ruby Package manager. Ruby on Rails is a gem based framework and is completely integrated with the gem package manager. In Intrepid I would expect users to continue to use gem to install Rails and for that to be feasible we need a Rubygems package that works as people expect it to work. I have implemented a patch that uses the alternatives system so that we can have gem install binaries in the $PATH without gem and apt running into each other and without violating Debian policy. This will close a long standing bug (https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/145267). I've been working closely with the Rubygems upstream team and the package is based on the latest source code from their repository which will be released as Rubygems 1.3.0 very shortly. Getting this into Intrepid will mean that it has the very latest Rubygems containing User based gem support, which is required so that Rails' automatic gem installation tasks work correctly. You can find the latest build of the packages at the Ubuntu Ruby team archives here: https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ruby. Both packages are on the REVU system as well. If you are just a user of Ubuntu and Ruby and would like better Rails and Gem support, please make yourself heard and perhaps even join the Ubuntu ruby group. I want to know what you think and what you want from Ubuntu Ruby, Rails and Gems. -- Neil Wilson -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
