From: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@...>
Date: 2010-09-13T16:09:03+09:00
Subject: Re: My experience from setting up a ruby dev environment

On 13/09/10 at 06:19 +0900, Markus Fischer wrote:
> 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" ....

You can see things differently. Lenny was released in february 2009.
People have installed on servers after that, and planned at the same to
use it for up to three years. During this three years lifetime, they
expect it to stay completely stable (only important bugs, like the
security issues, are supposed to be fixed). That's what Debian provides
with its stable releases.

Of course, if it doesn't solve your problem, you should try RVM, or
backports (but we don't provide any currently due to lack of time,
unfortunately).

- Lucas