From: paul h <paul@...>
Date: 2011-01-11T00:25:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Best Linux Distro for Ruby?

On Jan 9, 10:10 pm, "Jon W." <django...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think Ubuntu is a little confusing to new Ruby developers.  I
> personally wouldn't recommend it.   Some things that bug me about it
> (coming from a Windows background using Ruby)
>
>  1.  Ubuntu has a Ruby 1.9.1 package that you can install, which is
> really Ruby 1.9.2 but when you install it using Synaptic Package Manager
> the system also installs Ruby 1.8.7  and then requires you to fiddle
> with the symbolic links on the path of Gem and Ruby executables.   Also,
> the --update   flag for ruby commands wont work if you install that way.
> Its annoying.
>
>   2.  RVM may be the way to go but Ubuntu doesn't have a default package
> for installing it via Synaptic Package Manager.  Another annoyance.
>
> So, im investigating other distros.  My guess is that astandard install
> of Debian will be the way to go.   Fedora seemed a little behind the
> times on providing recent packages also.
>
> If I am going to use RVM then I'll use a system which seems to expect it
Hi Jon,

I've got a CentOS 5 server running Ruby 1.9.2 no problem. The only
package available is 1.8.5, so I needed to build from source, but it's
straighforward enough. (I'm from Windows, moved to Linux a few months
ago knowing nothing about 'nix - a little investigation with; a few
good books, and mostly googling, got me the information required to
build from source with required dependencies installed first.)

I also have Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 locally with RVM installed on both
and running different Ruby versions with different Gem's. Everything
works fine.

I want to try to build from source on Ubuntu - because I want to
learn, (I've decided Windows is crap (especially for ruby) IMHO since
moving to *nix - but in the meantime, RVM is ideal for me on Ubuntu.

Best

Paul