[CentOS] recent ruby packages?

[Phil Dobbin]

On 02/04/2013 07:36 PM, John R Pierce wrote:

> On 2/4/2013 7:21 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a repository that's*trustworthy*  (gotta worry 'bout
>> malware) with newer ruby rpm's than RHEL has?
>>
>> OT: the more I deal with ruby, the less I like it. Someone here was ready
>> to move to a newer version, and from the ruby.org website, they're
>> apparently actively hostile to all RH-related distros, even though we're
>> the most common in North America. They've got a how to do it from debian
>> and arch, how to use their own installer, and, oh, yes, they say a lot of
>> their community feels you should build from source.
>>
>> Sorry, that's not my idea of a stable language that I'd ever recommend to
>> someone....
> 
> IMNSHO, Ruby is only suitable for prototyping and low volume uses. it 
> doesn't scale well, and  ruby/rails websites perform abysmally under 
> heavy workloads.
> 
> that said, the 'correct' way of dealing with something like this in the 
> RHEL world is to build whatever version you need for your purposes, test 
> it, and package it as your OWN rpm's for production deployment.

The doesn't scale well argument hasn't been the case for at least a few
years now. Twitter is just one example. Some of the busiest sites on teh
Interwebs are still using it.

There are also projects, for example, like Puppet that are written in
Ruby that are used by a lot of fairly large organisations.

It may be worth your while reappraising Ruby.

Cheers,

  Phil...

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