Ruby and Rubygems is a mess on Gentoo!

zdavatz · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 15

Sorry but Ruby and Rubygems is a mess on Gentoo. Can someone please help out here.

1. On one of my machines I got

zeno@zdavatz-eeepc ~ $ gem
gem gem1.9 gem18 gem19

2. On the other machine I can not install gem19 at all. I just got

~> gem
gem18

What is the best way to install Ruby1.8 and Ruby1.9 on the same machine on Gentoo' Also what is the easiest way to install gem18 and gem19 on the same machine on Gentoo.

Ruby1.9 is perfectly stable and should not be masked at all in Gentoo.

I am not new to gentoo.

Thank you for your Feedback.

Best
Zeno

zdavatz · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 15

Just to make myself more clear:

I set:

RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19"

in my

/etc/make.conf

and then I do:

sudo emerge rubygems

and the result is:

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1
* rubygems-1.3.7.tgz RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-)

...
[ ok ]
* checking ebuild checksums ;-)

...
[ ok ]
* checking auxfile checksums ;-)

...
[ ok ]
* checking miscfile checksums ;-)

...
[ ok ]
* CPV: dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1
* USE: elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU x86
* ERROR: dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1 failed:
* You need to select at least one Ruby implementation by setting
RUBY_TARGETS in /etc/make.conf.
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 47: Called pkg_setup
* ebuild.sh, line 1345: Called ruby-ng_pkg_setup
* ruby-ng.eclass, line 293: Called _ruby_each_implementation
* ruby-ng.eclass, line 283: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* [[ ${invoked} == "no" ]] && die "You need to select at least one Ruby
implementation by setting RUBY_TARGETS in /etc/make.conf."
*
* If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info
=dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1',
* the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv
=dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1'.
* The complete build log is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1/temp/die.env'.
* S: '/var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1/work/rubygems-1.3.7'

>>> Failed to emerge dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1, Log file:

As far as I can tell Ruby1.9 is working more then fine, but the installation of
Ruby.19 is somehow not working.

Any hints are very welcome.

If I set

RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19"

only gem18 is installed.

idella4 · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 5:38 pm Post subject:

zdavatz

I have no idea about rubygems and gem, however, there are some 'hints' that come to mind.
Installing two versions is against emerge standard practices. I think the way to do it is by installing it into / as a slot, from seeing some updates doing some updating on my gentoo.
Gentoo's finest asset is its extensive documentation. Go to the wiki and look up portage practices and look up slots.

Also;

mv · Watchman Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 6747

I have no experience with ruby on gentoo, but looking at the ruby-ng.eclass, it seems that there is a typo in this error message: The variable name should probably be USE_RUBY, not RUBY_TARGETS. (If I am right, I suggest you write a corresponding bug report since this will bite other people, too.)

wthrowe · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Aug 2009 Posts: 141

The ruby_targets_ruby19 use flag is masked, so the ruby19 entry in RUBY_TARGETS is ignored. You'll have to unmask it, but I've never had to unmask a use flag and am not sure how to do it. I'm sure someone will come along here and explain how, though.

zdavatz · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 15

I am also documenting this here: http://groups.google.com/group/funtoo-dev/browse_thread/thread/fd3d6f164df435cb

zdavatz · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 15

This is the full status of the error:

Over at Gentoo I got this advice to install Ruby-1.9:

> It is the total of FIVE commands you have to run:

> mkdir -p /etc/portage/profile
> echo "-ruby_targets_ruby19" >> /etc/portage/profile/use.mask
> echo "dev-lang/ruby:1.9" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask
> echo "dev-lang/ruby:1.9" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
>> echo 'RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19"' >> /etc/make.conf

> and then install whatever you wants.

I done exactly as recommended above but it does not work.

"emerge rubygems" results in:

RubyGems installed the following executables:
/var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1/image/usr/bin/gem18

* Running install phase for ruby19 ...
/var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1/temp/environment: Zeile
2603: -rrbconfig: Kommando nicht gefunden.
/var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1/temp/environment: Zeile
796: setup.rb: Kommando nicht gefunden.
* ERROR: dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1 failed:
* setup.rb install failed
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 47: Called src_install
* environment, line 2653: Called ruby-ng_src_install
* environment, line 2471: Called _ruby_each_implementation
'each_ruby_install'
* environment, line 281: Called _ruby_invoke_environment 'ruby19'
'each_ruby_install'
* environment, line 310: Called each_ruby_install
* environment, line 796: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* ${RUBY} setup.rb $myconf --destdir="${D}" || die "setup.rb
install failed";
*
* If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info
=dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1',
* the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv
=dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1'.
* The complete build log is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1/temp/environment'.
* S: '/var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1/work/ruby19/
rubygems-1.3.7'

Does anybody a have suggestion towards the above error?

Best
Zeno

PS: Contrary to Gentoo I believe that Ruby-1.9 deserves to be unmasked
and and made easily installable side by side with Ruby1.8 - Ruby1.9 is
more then stable and more then ready. I think the people who are ready
for Ruby-1.9 deserve to install without any hassle of unmasking and
the errors that follow that.

zdavatz · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 15

What is also really interesting is, that on another of my machines I got Ruby1.8 and Ruby1.9 installed with gem18 and gem19 side by side _WITHOUT_ any additional settings in /etc/make.conf. All I done was unmask Ruby-1.9 in

/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask/gentoo

Genone · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 4:32 pm Post subject:

Maybe Funtoo does something else with Ruby ...
Anyway, I suggest you read Diegos blogposts about the progress on the Ruby front, and if you have any (specific) suggestions talk to him and the other devs working on ruby support in Gentoo.

phajdan.jr

zdavatz · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 15

On my laptop I just had to unmask Ruby.19 and all was fine. gem18 and gem19 installed side by side.

emerge --info from my desktop:

Portage 2.2_rc67-r2 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.35-rc6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.35-rc6-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_960_@_3.20GHz-with-gentoo-2.1.6
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:30:01 +0000
app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.10
dev-lang/python: 2.4.6, 2.5.4-r4, 2.6.5-r1
dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1.6
sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.0
sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1
sys-devel/gcc: 3.3.6-r1, 4.1.2, 4.3.3-r2, 4.4.3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.32
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="de_CH.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="de_CH.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j9"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac accessibility acl admin alac alsa ao apache2 berkdb boost bzip2 cairo cdr cgi cjk consolekit crypt ctype cups curl cxx dbus deprecated discouraged dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode filter flac foomaticdb gcj gd gdm gif gnome gpgme gpm gs gtk gtkhtml iconv imagemagick imlib immqt ipv6 java java5 java6 jfs jpeg lame lua mad maildir mime mmx modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mpeg2 mplayer mudflap mysql mysqli nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp openssh openssl opera pam pcre pda perl php png pop postgres ppds python qt-static qt3 qt3support quicktime readline realmedia regex rpm ruby sdl sdl-image sdl-sound sdlaudio session skins spl spreadsheet sqlite ssl svg sysfs tcpd threads thumbnail tiff tls tracker truetype unicode utf8 vhook vhosts vorbis wavpack webkit win32codecs wv wxwindows x86 xml xorg xterm xterm-color xvid zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

emerge --info from my laptop:

Portage 2.2_rc67-r2 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.33-rc8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.33-rc8-i686-Intel-R-_Atom-TM-_CPU_Z520_@_1.33GHz-with-gentoo-2.1.6
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:25:01 +0000
app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35
dev-lang/python: 2.4.6, 2.6.5-r2
dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1.6
sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.0
sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65
sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1
sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.3-r2, 4.4.3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.32
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="i486-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alac alsa berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode exif extras fam firefox flac gdbm gif git google gphoto2 gpm gtk iconv ipv6 jpeg lame lcms ldap libnotify mad mikmod mng modules mouse mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline reflection ruby sasl sdl session smtp spell spl ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd threads tiff tls truetype udev unicode usb video vim vorbis wavpack webkit wifi win32codecs x264 x86 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware voodoo" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

zdavatz · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 15

I read Diegos Blog-Post.

Diego is really giving Ruby 1.9 a hard time. And the result will be that nobody will install the Ruby-1.9 via emerge but via source. I think Diego should grab a bit less responsibility and try to get out of the way to clear Ruby-1.9 for the people who want to install it.

Also: Why fight Ruby-Gems? That does not make sense. It is a waste of time. You are fighting something that the Ruby-Community wants. You want that the whole world uses emerge to install Ruby software. Well some people prefer gems to install Ruby-Software.

Your QA work is appreciated but do not let it get totalitarian.

We build our own Gem-Packages because we have many Ruby-Libraries that means we have many gem-packages of our own. By being as totalitarian as Diego rule wants it to be there is no more advantage over Ubuntu or Debian by Gentoo for a plattform that runs ruby.

Diegos solution is not practical. Something that is 100% save is never practical. Every user is responsible for his own machines.

zdavatz · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 15

Ok, my laptop runs:

ruby 1.9.1p243 (2009-07-16 revision 24175) [i486-linux]

my desktop runs:

ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-07-11 revision 28618) [i686-linux]

The desktop-version _does_not_compile if I set the

RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19"

in

/etc/make.conf

the result is the following:

/var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1/temp/environment: Zeile 798: setup.rb: Kommando nicht gefunden.
* ERROR: dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1 failed:
* setup.rb install failed
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 47: Called src_install
* environment, line 2655: Called ruby-ng_src_install
* environment, line 2473: Called _ruby_each_implementation 'each_ruby_install'
* environment, line 281: Called _ruby_invoke_environment 'ruby19' 'each_ruby_install'
* environment, line 310: Called each_ruby_install
* environment, line 798: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* ${RUBY} setup.rb $myconf --destdir="${D}" || die "setup.rb install failed";
*
* If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1',
* the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv =dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1'.
* The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1/temp/environment'.
* S: '/var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1/work/ruby19/rubygems-1.3.7'

>>> Failed to emerge dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1, Log file:

>>> '/var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1/temp/build.log'

* Messages for package dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1:

* ERROR: dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1 failed:
* setup.rb install failed
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 47: Called src_install
* environment, line 2655: Called ruby-ng_src_install
* environment, line 2473: Called _ruby_each_implementation 'each_ruby_install'
* environment, line 281: Called _ruby_invoke_environment 'ruby19' 'each_ruby_install'
* environment, line 310: Called each_ruby_install
* environment, line 798: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* ${RUBY} setup.rb $myconf --destdir="${D}" || die "setup.rb install failed";
*
* If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1',
* the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv =dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1'.
* The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1/temp/environment'.
* S: '/var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1/work/ruby19/rubygems-1.3.7'

Best
Zeno

phajdan.jr

Arthanis · Apprentice Joined: 21 Mar 2008 Posts: 166

I have a similiar problem. I had ruby18 and ruby19 and also gem18 and gem19 running side-by-side, flawless. Actually, I usually brag how gentoo dealed with ruby and rubygems smoothly to my colleages, since they use macOS and ubuntu, all I needed to do is eselect ruby and everything was Ok. But recently I synced and updated, and it complained about rubygems being broken. So I cleaned it and reinstalled. The result is that now I have both ruby18 and ruby19, but the latter without gems (kinda useless).

tracker · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2004 Posts: 7 Location: United States

Well this has been quite the disappointment.

In reading Flameeyes' blog, I got the distinct impression that his primary focus shifted from not being responsible for a repeat of the Python3 roll-out, to being paid for volunteering on Gentoo. If I've learned anything about end-users in the OSS ecosystem, is that beyond our lazyness, we're cheap ;-)

Seriously though, whats wrong with just marking the entire thing as unstable, and letting the adventuresome users test it? In my own experiences, and in looking at this thread, that seems to be the common theme: Why can't I throw a single ruby19 switch and just have Gentoo do my heavy lifting for me? Don't worry about telling me that I shouldn't do something, or even about fixing gem dependencies; thats what I signed up for when I flipped that switch. I understand that there might be problems going down that road, the point of Gentoo is that we can go down that road in top gear.

Worst case, we just uninstall it, revert our single switch-throw, and go down the path of goodness and rightness.
_________________
--Tracker

Not to be confused with BitTorrent

funklord · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 May 2004 Posts: 78

My advice as a gentoo user and ruby developer is to use whatever ruby is installed by default to get rvm and then use that to manage the ruby versions and gems you want. Its not perfect, but it gives a lot more fine-grained control over what you have installed, if that's important to you. I personally don't like to install software on my systems outside of portage, but I make an exception in this case.

svoop · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2009 Posts: 63

a3li · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:19 pm Post subject:

svoop · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2009 Posts: 63

a3li · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:22 pm Post subject:

svoop · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2009 Posts: 63

svoop · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2009 Posts: 63

Another problem with unbundling gems that usually come with Ruby 1.9:

Webapps (in my case a bare Locomotive site) rely on the bundled gems and don't list gem in the Gemfile. A notorious one is the racc gem. The quick fix is to install the racc gem explicitly and then include it in the Gemfile. However, a3li, do you see a way to install the normally bundled gems in a way which makes it obsolete to touch the Gemfile?