From: Markus Fischer <markus@...>
Date: 2010-09-13T06:19:37+09:00
Subject: Re: My experience from setting up a ruby dev environment

Hi,

On 12.09.2010 23:05, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>> Anyway, I cleverly typed  dpkg -l '*gem*'  to find it, but was surprised:
> 
> dpkg -l lists locally installed packages. You want apt-cache search.

Ok thanks, wasn't aware of that!

> I guess that's because the version of rubygems in lenny still users
> rubyforge. The default location for gems was moved two times since then.
> 
> [...]
> 
> It would actually be more interesting if you could report on your
> experience doing the same thing with Debian squeeze (the next release,
> currently frozen). There's not much we can do about lenny anyway.

Hmm, I understand. Well, squeeze ... I don't recall any of the machines
I use (at work, that's my main reason to use Ruby) runs on Squeeze; all
production and thus environment machines are on Lenny.

But given your statement, it's one more reason to use "rvm" ....

- Markus