From: mathew <meta@...>
Date: 2005-12-22T07:47:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Debian

Chris Martin wrote:
>On 12/16/05, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
>>What's the magic to get this going on Debian?
> 
> Assuming you're using Ruby 1.8 you need to
> 
> apt-get install libruby1.8

But ruby already lists libruby1.8 as a dependency, so that shouldn't be 
the problem. It should already have been installed when ruby was installed.

> For Rails, I ALWAYS use rubygems to install it. I've never had luck
> with the debian packages.

Yes, well, let's not reopen the RubyGems vs APT discussion again... 
That's one area where the Debian folk deserve criticism, but they don't 
seem to have any interest in cooperating to fix the problem.

So yeah, the best thing is to install RubyGems from source and use it 
for all Ruby libraries. Or as you say:

> As silly as this sounds, I typically install gems via gem (rubygems)
> and anything that starts with lib via apt. ;)


mathew
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