John R Pierce wrote:
On 2/4/2013 7:21 AM, m.roth@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.
ROTFLMAO! A few years ago, a friend who's a professor (was that math, or CS; think it was the latter) up in Minnesota was real hot on ruby, and commented on the growning number of books on it in the school bookstore.
A year or two ago, I'd seen an article or two about it not scaling, and sent it to him, which he thanked me for, and hadn't known about. This isn't a heavily used website, AFAIK, even if it is from the US gov. Certainly, they were building it in ruby before I started; dunno as I'd have had any influence on the guy who was good, but enTHUsed about ruby... and rails. And passenger. <snip>
mark "or was that passenger pigeons, which are extinct?"