From: Saji N Hameed <saji@...21.net>
Date: 2008-12-28T08:49:25+09:00
Subject: Re: how to make installing Ruby easier for amateurs

> > Ready to GO? You would think so. Naively, I always do. But it's not to be.
> > Now the madness starts, and this is what I want fixed.
> 
> Most of this "madness" had nothing to do with Ruby and everything to
> do with the decisions made by Debian and Ubuntu about how to package
> Ruby.
 
I would very much agree with this. I had been using ArchLinux for some
time and never faced any such problems. Recently I tried Ubuntu on another
machine and the situation is quite different - you need to know some
background stuff to get rubygems installed packages working properly!

saji