Re: Best Linux Distro for Ruby?

I have installed Ruby, Rails, and related dependencies on Ubuntu 10.04,
10.10 and ArchLinux.  ArchLinux was a bit easier.  I ended up purging
everything I had installed from the Ubuntu repositories and just relied
solely on RVM.

Regardless of the distro I believe using RVM is a good course of action.
Not only for being able to switch between versions, but because it has many
more useful features available.  You can still use your distro's package
manger and repositories, but RVM's sole purpose is really a ruby/rails
package manager, so is more feature rich in terms of how you install/manage
ruby/rails.

I guess my opinion here would be to stick with whatever distro you like...
and rely on RVM.

Culley

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Jonas Pfenniger (zimbatm) <
jon...@pfenniger.name> wrote:

> Check out ArchLinux, their package is pretty much pristine and tracks> 1.9 (current 1.9.2-p136)>> 2011/1/13 meaglith <gene...@gmail.com>:> > Gentoo is good choice. I install ruby 1.9.2 from source code.> > -------------------------------------------------------> > Blog: http://douhua.im> > Twitter: http://twitter.com/genedna> > Website: http://douhua.im> > -------------------------------------------------------> >> >> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:25 PM, paul h <p...@hollyer.me.uk> wrote:> >> >> 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> >>> >>> >>> >>>