Re: Is Ruby Dying?

Newsgroups	comp.lang.ruby
Date	2014-12-16 14:33 -0800
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Subject	Re: Is Ruby Dying?
From	Ryan VanMaele <ryan.vanmaele@gmail.com>

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I'm fairly new to Ruby but I think the gem system is really pretty great, at least in theory. Ideally your sys admin should just be able to install rvm and be done. All the gems should come in seamlessly without any intervention.  

That all being said, I develop on a Mac and deploy on Linux and have had to deal with everything breaking. Especially when doing OS updates on my Mac.  Where things seem to go awry is when somebody has built a gem which for some reason has to compile native code and/or use a bunch of system libraries.  At that point you might as well have native packages.

I find these gems to really hurt my view of the ecosystem as I want gems to be truly portable.

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    Re: Is Ruby Dying? Ryan VanMaele <ryan.vanmaele@gmail.com> - 2014-12-16 14:33 -0800
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