From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2007-09-11T11:50:56+09:00 Subject: Re: [OT] Re: What Linux distribution to choose for learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lionel Bouton wrote: > Thanks for the answer, that was an interesting reading. I've some > remarks though (maybe some things changed since the last time you tried > Gentoo). > > To put it more on topic, could you describe briefly how you can > integrate gems in the package management system on *BSD? With me being > very familiar with Gentoo, the ease of integration of gems into Gentoo > was probably the biggest reasons why I switched all my servers to Gentoo... > Does it build on gems like Gentoo or do you have to write messy > Makefiles like I suspect most other Linux distributions do? While the integration of gems into Portage is good, it isn't perfect. Things I really want, like Ruport, haven't made it into the tree yet, so I have to mix gems from the gem server with gems bundled into ebuilds. The way you get a new gem into Portage is file an enhancement request in bugs.gentoo.org and wait. But once the gem makes it into the tree, a keyworded ebuild for updates generally shows up in Portage within a day or two of the gem being released. That ain't gonna happen with Fedora or Debian as far as I can tell. The same goes for Ruby itself -- it only takes a day or so for a release to get into Portage. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFG5gJO8fKMegVjSM8RAmLGAKDTFooI5awhcLbiBBAMMim5+AigzQCY9uyT mY+iB9yyWNe9Ge+dY3DCkA== =Tnr3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----