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

Jo Rhett
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:34:35 -0000

On Nov 17, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Ohad Levy wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
wrote:
>> On Nov 17, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Ohad Levy wrote:
>>
>> if its not clear, what it means, is that if you want to run it on
>> RHEL5, you can either keep running the current 0.4.x  versions or
>> upgrade your ruby stack. otherwise use a more recent distribution.
>>
>> Given that "upgrading the ruby stack" means either
"build your own RPMs from
>> scratch" or "download from a random internet site" this
is going to limit
>> the number of sites which can do this.
>
> Since we understand its a pain upgrading to a newer distribution,
> we''ve built a puppet module which helps with foreman
installation...
> if you have any better ideas of how we can try helping our ruby
> community…

Um… as I suggested, provide el5 rpms of ruby 1.8.7 and the various gems?

Myself, I''m looking at this right now -- but open to better options:
https://github.com/largon/centos-ruby-spec_files

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