Ruby Version Manager: Easily Use Multiple Ruby Versions At Once

Re:Ruby Version Manager: Easily Use Multiple Ruby Versions A... by compay on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @10:52PM (#788539)

As far as glacial release cycles are concerned, use Ubuntu, not Debian. Problem solved.

And about packages getting rearranged, yeah, I like FreeBSD's ports better too, but you really should be using apt-get only to install rubygems and then use gem rather than apt to install the gems.

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Re:Ruby Version Manager: Easily Use Multiple Ruby Versions A... by blasdel on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @11:38PM (#788582)

Using Ubuntu doesn't always, as Canonical just reuses Debian's crap for a ton of stuff, and if they're nearing a 'release' even everything in testing freezes for fucking forever.

It's much worse with Haskell than any other language I know of -- last I checked there were two broken+old builds of ghc with different names and mutually-exclusive sets of packages that depended on them. On top of that the version of cabal (Haskell's packaging tool) in the repository was so far out of date that you couldn't use it to build anything remotely recent (including useful versions of itself), nor could you use it with anything in Hackage (the central repo).

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Re:Ruby Version Manager: Easily Use Multiple Ruby Versions A... by sho on Thursday August 27, 2009 @03:42AM (#788841)

Amen to that.

And since we're on a Ruby thread, Ubuntu's Ruby 1.9 is 1.9.0 which is (1) buggy (2) broken (3) more than a year old. It is fucking ridiculous, no-one with any sense is using that. This version manager is actually better than apt-get for managing your Ruby installs. Go figure.

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