| Store | Cart

Re: Best Linux Distro for Ruby?

From: paul h <p...@hollyer.me.uk>
Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:25:24 +0900
On Jan 9, 10:10 pm, "Jon W." <djan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think Ubuntu is a little confusing to new Ruby developers.  I> personally wouldn't recommend it.   Some things that bug me about it> (coming from a Windows background using Ruby)>>  1.  Ubuntu has a Ruby 1.9.1 package that you can install, which is> really Ruby 1.9.2 but when you install it using Synaptic Package Manager> the system also installs Ruby 1.8.7  and then requires you to fiddle> with the symbolic links on the path of Gem and Ruby executables.   Also,> the --update   flag for ruby commands wont work if you install that way.> Its annoying.>>   2.  RVM may be the way to go but Ubuntu doesn't have a default package> for installing it via Synaptic Package Manager.  Another annoyance.>> So, im investigating other distros.  My guess is that astandard install> of Debian will be the way to go.   Fedora seemed a little behind the> times on providing recent packages also.>> If I am going to use RVM then I'll use a system which seems to expect it
Hi Jon,

I've got a CentOS 5 server running Ruby 1.9.2 no problem. The only
package available is 1.8.5, so I needed to build from source, but it's
straighforward enough. (I'm from Windows, moved to Linux a few months
ago knowing nothing about 'nix - a little investigation with; a few
good books, and mostly googling, got me the information required to
build from source with required dependencies installed first.)

I also have Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 locally with RVM installed on both
and running different Ruby versions with different Gem's. Everything
works fine.

I want to try to build from source on Ubuntu - because I want to
learn, (I've decided Windows is crap (especially for ruby) IMHO since
moving to *nix - but in the meantime, RVM is ideal for me on Ubuntu.

Best

Paul

Recent Messages in this Thread
Nick Hird Jan 02, 2011 02:40 am
Thomas Yao Jan 02, 2011 02:44 am
Stu Jan 02, 2011 05:57 am
koulikoff Jan 02, 2011 10:15 am
Yukihiro Matsumoto Jan 03, 2011 02:51 am
James Earl Jan 03, 2011 05:13 pm
S2 akira Jan 03, 2011 08:03 pm
Jon W. Jan 09, 2011 10:10 pm
Stu Jan 10, 2011 01:02 am
Sergio Fernandes Jan 10, 2011 02:55 am
DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26 Jan 10, 2011 12:52 pm
paul h Jan 10, 2011 03:25 pm
meaglith Jan 13, 2011 01:32 pm
Jonas Pfenniger (zimbatm) Jan 13, 2011 06:40 pm
Culley Smith Jan 13, 2011 06:59 pm
Messages in this thread