--On Saturday, October 08, 2011 6:29 AM -0700 Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote: > CentOS 6 is new so there's little experience with running ruby packages > on it but there's really no problem with running 'gem install > $SOME_PACKAGE' on any system. Realistically, the available rpm packages > are never going to keep up with the gems so after you get the base ruby > rpm packages installed (ruby/ruby-irb/ruby-ri/ruby-rdoc/ruby-gems) you > should probably just quit there and use the built-in gem package > provider to do everything else. Also, if you are talking about something > like a Ruby on Rails solution, the more organized setups will use > 'bundler' to get the application up to speed rather quickly. That makes sense. I played a little with gem2rpm but to really be useful there should be a yum repository of standard gems that tracks whatever ruby's normal upstream repositories hold (its CPAN equivalent).