From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-11-05T00:09:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT - debian/ruby] [WAS] Re: rails: gem install rails is bombing

Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> 
>>> I'm running into a problem installing rails using gem.  How do I fix
>>> this?
>>
>>
>> You don't have RDoc installed. Debian has chopped off Ruby into tiny
>> packages. Have a look at http://www.rubyonrails.org/show/RailsOnDebian 
>> for
>> help.
> 
> 
> i'm thinking of switching to debian but am kind of a tar.gz kind of package
> guy and don't like the sound of that at all... can any of you ruby/debian
> people give any information on debian as a ruby development platform?

If tar.gz's are your thing, Ara, you might enjoy Gentoo 
(http://www.gentoo.org) as well. I've found my gentoo install to be 
quite capable as a ruby development platform.

- Jamis

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