[Rails] Linux distros

Chris Flipse
Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:21:44 -0000

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 05:53:44PM -0500, Rob Sanheim
wrote:
> With Ubuntu, do you still go thru installing Ruby, gem, rmagick,
> etc...from source, or are there packages that "just work" and are
at
> the latest versions?

there are os native packages for ruby (1.8.2, or 1.9 for the brave) rmagick,
mysql, and a bunch of other extension libraries.  ( lib.*-ruby )

I installed Gem from source, and use that to install the various gems,
since there isn''t a native rubygems package ( yet.  It seems that there
is
a package of rubygems 0.8.11 in debian''s
''experimental'' section
http://packages.debian.org/experimental/interpreters/rubygems )

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