[CentOS] ruby on rails

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 00:36 -0600, Dan Wright wrote:
> On 1/18/06, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote:
>         Top posting is bad on mailing lists mkay?
>         
>         On 1/18/06, Dan Wright <dwright134 at gmail.com> wrote:
>         > wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz
>         
>         Building source on an rpm based distribution is bad mmmm'kay
>         
>         It doesn't play nice with rpm/yum because there are no rpmdb
>         entries
>         for software installed from source. It makes updates tricky,
>         and can 
>         have unexpected consequences depending on what is linked to
>         first,
>         path entries or overwritten files on update. It makes software
>         audits
>         more complicated in production environments. Etc,etc, etc.
>         It's just
>         not a nice thing to do to your server. 
>         
>         </soapb
>         
>         --
>         Jim Perrin
>         System Architect - UIT
>         Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center
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>         CentOS at centos.org
>         http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
> 
> Is this better?  I apologize for my blatant disregard for proper
> mailing list etiquette mmm'kay. I guess we could also argue that all
> the white space in your post is a waste of bandwidth, but I degress. 
> 
> Well anyways.....  Thank you for bringing to my attention that a newer
> version of ruby exists for CentOS.  I was not aware of that fact.
> 
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we all have our pet peeves - mine is hard to read html mail - apparently
Jim's is top posted replies.

Anyway, I pretty much knew that I could install from source.

As for ruby - perhaps upstream is so focused on eclipse that it ignores
rails and thus ruby as a language might be fine at 1.8.1 but as those
who have checked it out, know that rails is a rapidly moving target and
upstream isn't covering it.

For those who have a few minutes to burn - you might want to check out
the interesting quicktime movies that they have which demonstrate ruby
on rails...

http://www.rubyonrails.org/screencasts

personally, I haven't seen anything as exciting since the release of
Netscape 2.0

;-)

Thanks

Craig