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ChrisJumper Advocate
Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 2390 Location: Germany
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Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 12:35 pm Post subject: Lets Talk about Ruby and Gems |
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Hi all,
today i thought i could restart my investigation on ruby on rails learning, cause there will be a nice talk on the next signit 2013 in cologne. To refresh my ruby-languages skills and ruby on rails playground i want to start with some basics.
Oh what's this? My Gentoo have no up to date packages and actually no maintainer for ruby packages? What about using gem to handle these updates? There is a gentoo bug about security reason's that Rubygems will overwrite binarys in /usr/bin so, i am not sure how to handle this well.
Ill take a look on Archlinux and Ubuntu and how they handle there ruby-installations. But i would prefer a clean solution.
The first time i used rubygems i thought it create just some additional files for the binarys in the users directory. Too bad if the usage of Rubygems is insecure.
If i trust the Rubygems maintainers why shouldn't i use RubyGems? I play with the thought to remove all ruby packages in gentoo and download and install it manually from the web. Could i brake some installations, cause gnome3 or other packages use ruby through the gentoo packages?
Thanks for your time,
Chris |
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TomWij Retired Dev
Joined: 04 Jul 2012 Posts: 1553
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Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 2:56 pm Post subject: Re: Lets Talk about Ruby and Gems |
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ChrisJumper wrote: | My Gentoo have no up to date packages |
You can file bugs about that.
ChrisJumper wrote: | actually no maintainer for ruby packages? |
There is the ruby herd. Though, that herd might be a bit undermanned.
ChrisJumper wrote: | What about using gem to handle these updates? |
Nope, they can't do that as external tools aren't allowed to fetch things during emerges; so, they fake gem installations.
ChrisJumper wrote: | There is a gentoo bug about security reason's that Rubygems will overwrite binarys in /usr/bin so, i am not sure how to handle this well. |
You either use Portage, or you don't; there is no mixed solution.
ChrisJumper wrote: | Ill take a look on Archlinux and Ubuntu and how they handle there ruby-installations. But i would prefer a clean solution. |
The clean way is to use Portage. I can't comment on other practices, we don't support them and you would be on your own... |
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