Re: [Puppet Users] dropping support for ruby 1.85?

Jo Rhett
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:52:43 -0000

On Nov 15, 2011, at 9:18 PM, Brian Gupta wrote:
> Not speaking for Ohad here, but I do know that rails 3.x would have major
issues with Ruby versions <= 1.8.6, and are explicitly not supported. As it
stands foreman is not alone here, as puppetlabs is not supporting ruby 1.8.5 for
the latest versions of puppet dashboard either. 1.8.7 is the minimum to support
puppet dashboard 1.2.x.
>
> Being that Foreman is just a single server in your environment, is this
really that big of a deal? Is there anything the Foreman project could do to
ease the issues with supporting a newer versions of Ruby? There are some options
here. The packages that Eric mentioned, REE source install, RVM, etc.

There a lot of sites sensitive about where the RPM comes from -- with good
reason in my mind, although I simply review the installation scripts myself ;-)
An official (including EPEL in most people''s mind) rpm of ruby 1.8.7
and ruby gems based on that would go a long way to solving that problem.

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