From: meaglith <genednaparadox@...>
Date: 2011-01-13T22:32:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Best Linux Distro for Ruby?

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Gentoo is good choice. I install ruby 1.9.2 from source code.
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On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:25 PM, paul h <paul@hollyer.me.uk> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>

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