From: Zed Shaw <zedshaw@...>
Date: 2006-04-27T12:03:54+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygem required?

Joe,

Yes, Mongrel uses a little tiny chunk of code called GemPlugins to allow
others to extend Mongrel without having to make me add the code in.  It's
already spawned Bradley Taylor's mongrel_cluster plugin which is helping
many people do clustered deployments.  Not including RubyGems would break
this and pretty much be like disabling modules in Apache.

Zed A. Shaw
http://www.zedshaw.com/
http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/



On 4/26/06 1:14 PM, "Joe Van Dyk" <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm creating RPM packages for:
>   - opinion (which includes Rails)
>   - ruby 1.8.4
>   - mongrel
>   - rake
>   - gem_plugin
>   - ruby-postgres
> 
> (I want to install opinion using postgres on a RHEL system that
> doesn't have internet access)
> 
> Do these things need rubygems also installed?  Am i going to be
> breaking things (i.e. mongrel) if I don't use rubygems?
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe
>