From: andrew mcelroy <sophrinix@...>
Date: 2009-12-05T07:03:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Equivalent of Python's virtualenv

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@marnen.org> wrote:
> T. B. wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a Ruby equivalent of Python's virtualenv? I need to
>> start getting up to speed on some stuff and think this would be a great
>> way to do it... Safely.
>
> Perhaps Try Ruby would have something useful?  I *think* it's
> open-source.
>
Maintainer of Try Ruby here.

No Try Ruby isn't a sandbox, at least not yet.
That's what I was asking about the other day.

Your best bet would be a Rakefile that freezes the gems you want
isolated and maybe use ruby version manager.

The why_sandbox isn't ready for 1.9 and is only a sandbox in the sense
that it overwrites certain method calls like File and Kernel.

Andrew McElroy

>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>
> Best,
> --
> Marnen Laibow-Koser
> http://www.marnen.org
> marnen@marnen.org
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