Lets Talk about Ruby and Gems

[ChrisJumper]

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

[TomWij]