From: Al Gordon <runlevel7@...>
Date: 2005-12-23T07:03:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Debian

On 12/21/05, mathew <meta@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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
> --
>       <URL:http://www.pobox.com/~meta/>
> My parents went to the lost kingdom of Hyrule
>      and all I got was this lousy triforce.


Is there an easy way for Debian users to create .debs for stuff
otherwise installed via gems or with setup.rb?  I regularly create
.debs for "./configure; make; make install" by using checkinstall, but
am unaware of the ruby equivalent, if any.  I'd heard that it's out
there, but haven't seen it in my googling.

Thanks,

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  -- AL --