On 09/23/2011 03:57 PM, Hugh Brock wrote:
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 09:56:57AM +0200, Emanuel Rietveld wrote:
> Perhaps we can make something like rvm (or the more recent rbenv - which
> does seem simpler and more robust) central to the Fedora ruby strategy.
> They allow you to install multiple ruby versions with multiple gem
> stacks concurrently, and decide on a per-application basis what ruby
> stack to use. It would be good it if it was easy for Fedora users to
> install rvm/rbenv and multiple versions of ruby and rails via rpm and
> have it all work out of the box.
Yes... the problem with RVM of course is that from a production
support standpoint it is a living horror:
"What Ruby interpreter are you using?"
"Hmm... let me just see if I can figure out what that environment
variable was set to the last time the bug happened..."
Endorsing RVM as a winning strategy in Fedora is ultimately just
enabling bad practice. "Moment-of-pleasure-for-lifetime-of-pain" type
of thing.
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That is a fair point, but you can mitigate this a little by deploying a
rvmrc or .rbenv-version file with your app instead of using environment
variables. If you check that file into your revision control system, the
ruby interpreter used will be consistent across deployments for a
particular version of your app.