[CentOS] recent ruby packages?

Mon Feb 4 19:57:22 UTC 2013
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

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.
>
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.
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