CentOS - Nov 2009 - Ruby Enterprise Edition

I find myself needing a newer Ruby than is in the distro.  I'm going
to need to install this on a large number of machines, so packaging it
would be ideal.

REE seems the obvious candidate - unless other folk can recommend an
alternative.

I found the following spec:

http://www.cherpec.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/ruby-enterprise.spec

In my build environment I get:

$ rpmbuild -tb ruby-enterprise.spec
error: Name field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Version field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Release field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Summary field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Group field must be present in package: (main package)
error: License field must be present in package: (main package)

I've not fixed this yet, but thought I'd ask if anyone else has a spec
or package they can recommend, before I start reinventing wheels.

Thanks,

S.

Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
> I find myself needing a newer Ruby than is in the distro.  I'm going
> to need to install this on a large number of machines, so packaging it
> would be ideal.
>
> REE seems the obvious candidate - unless other folk can recommend an
> alternative.
In the past I believe I used srpms from Fedora. I haven't had to use
Ruby in almost two years now (yay), so I'm not sure if it still holds
true now. I recall some issue with the latest Fedora where the rpm
file format changed or compression changed or something making it
slightly incompatible with CentOS, though not difficult to work
around.

I also seek out srpms from OpenSUSE as well on occasion if I can't
find them elsewhere, I think my nagios 3 SRPMs are from OpenSUSE

nate

Hi,

On 04/11/09 22:53, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
> REE seems the obvious candidate - unless other folk can recommend an
> alternative.
ruby-ee is a patched 1.8.6 - so the stock spec builds and works fine, 
you just need to rebuild everything around it, specially if you intend 
to replace the system ruby!

- KB