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Re:Time to hand over the reins before Capistrano costs me my... by FireBringer on Sunday October 06, 2013 @03:02PM (#6505033)
You shouldn't necessarily be compiling ruby on your server anyways you should be using a package (rpm, deb) to install it. Especially if you are losing $500k because you decided to compile ruby on your production server.
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Re:Time to hand over the reins before Capistrano costs me my... by bradleyland on Sunday October 06, 2013 @06:32PM (#6505719)
One of the challenges of running a production application based on Ruby is the fact that relying on distro packages will fail miserably. Rubygems, in particular, does not work well with distro installed Ruby interpreters.
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Re:Time to hand over the reins before Capistrano costs me my... by FireBringer on Sunday October 06, 2013 @08:19PM (#6505999)
I was talking about creating your own packages.
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Re:Time to hand over the reins before Capistrano costs me my... by bradleyland on Sunday October 06, 2013 @08:44PM (#6506045)
Ah, I re-read your comment in an entirely different light now, and I agree that packaging your own deps is a great way to avoid surprises when you roll your infrastructure.
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