From: Lionel Bouton <lionel-subscription@...>
Date: 2007-09-11T18:25:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: What Linux distribution to choose for learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote the following on 11.09.2007 04:50 :
> 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.

To solve this I've setup an overlay of my own. As I don't want to
circumvent the package manager and develop software that I can't release
as opensource, this is the only workable way for me. When I need a new
gem, I simply add an ebuild to my overlay: the whole process including
distribution to servers takes 5 minutes on average.

If you take a quick look at gems based ebuilds, I'm sure you can setup a
new overlay of your own on a very short notice. With layman and a svn
server you can distribute your overlay to all your servers easily.

Lionel