From: "Jonas Pfenniger (zimbatm)" Date: 2011-01-14T03:40:15+09:00 Subject: Re: Best Linux Distro for Ruby? Check out ArchLinux, their package is pretty much pristine and tracks 1.9 (current 1.9.2-p136) 2011/1/13 meaglith : > Gentoo is good choice. I install ruby 1.9.2 from source code. > ------------------------------------------------------- > Blog: http://douhua.im > Twitter: http://twitter.com/genedna > Website: http://douhua.im > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:25 PM, paul h wrote: > >> On Jan 9, 10:10 pm, "Jon W." 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 >> >> >> >