From: Neil Wilson <aldursys@...>
Date: 2007-06-12T17:15:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Serious danger of being impressed

The Rubygems package is now in Debian/Ubuntu, but it is mildly
crippled. However if you run

gem update --system

then it magically turns into the normal ruby gem system.

APT still doesn't know anything about gems, but it is less of a
problem than you'd think.

My approach with Ubuntu is to install from APT packages unless the APT
package is just a port of a gem.


On Jun 11, 7:18 pm, "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denat...@gmail.com> wrote:

> That all said, while I'm a happy Ubuntu user, I don't use packaged
> versions of some specific software, most notably Ruby. This isn't
> because of Ubuntu but because of Debian.  In the case of Ruby one
> major reason is because, as far as I know unless it's changed
> recently, Debian (and therefore Ubuntu) doesn't really support gems.
> Now this may have changed recently, but I've been happy installing
> Ruby and Gems from source, and gems as gems.