On the maintainability of Ruby
On the maintainability of Ruby
Posted Jan 24, 2011 20:29 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)In reply to: On the maintainability of Ruby by docwhat
Parent article: On the maintainability of Ruby
And, like you, I tend to install Python, Ruby (and especially rubygems), and Eclipse from source. They just seem to just work better. True, that's a sign of breakage, but I guess it never bothered me much.
Posted Jan 25, 2011 1:53 UTC (Tue)
by docwhat (guest, #40373)
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Perl is now, mostly, under control for me because Bugzilla (for example) installs the CPAN libraries into it's installation...which is great. Ruby is starting to be better for a similar reason: Bundler.
BTW: The article forgot to mention that unlike other interpreted languages (perl, python) you can install multiple versions of the gems and request specific ones when you 'require' them. Which means that having the Distribution manage the gems is a lot less important -- You can lock them in from the application (manually, or with something like bundler).
Oh, and one more thing. RVM can be installed system-wide: http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/deployment/system-wide/
Maybe that should be packaged instead?
Ciao!
On the maintainability of Ruby