[webstack-discuss] Ruby/Rails components -

[Dick Davies]

Not sure about trunk (being its still OS-specific). But it seems OSX just
raised the bar:

  http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/ruby/wiki/WhatsNewInLeopard

On 19/10/2007, Prashant Srinivasan <Prashant.Srinivasan at sun.com> wrote:
>  > Once that piece is behind us, we will package individual gems, into
> our . . . .
>
>  To clarify that comment - the idea is to pick a select set of
> libraries(gems) to  petition the OpenSolaris ARC with.  To maintain
> rubygems compatibility is of utmost important since we cannot possibly
> package all the gems available out there, and also to be upgrade-friendly.
>  -ps
>
> Prashant Srinivasan wrote:
> > Brandorr wrote:
> >
> >> On 10/18/07, Thorleif Wiik <wiik at pixelpark.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> today, I received a request by  a customer to migrate their application stack from linux to Solaris 10 U4.
> >>>
> >>> The request looks like this:
> >>>
> >>> ruby >= 1.8.5
> >>> rubygems >= 0.9.4
> >>>   mysql-ruby >= 2.7.3
> >>>   fastthread >= 1.0
> >>>   rspec >= 1.0.5
> >>>   log4r >= 1.0.5
> >>>   activerecord >= 1.15.3
> >>>   activesupport >= 1.4.2
> >>>   mongrel >= 1.0.1
> >>> libgpg-error >= 1.5
> >>> libgcrypt >= 1.2.4
> >>> rake >= 0.7.3
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Thorleif,
> >>
> >> Most, if not all, of these Ruby apps and libraries can be installed as
> >> Gems. Could you check with your client, and verify that "gem install
> >> rails" is what they are used to. (IE: rubygems will be included, but
> >> not every single common library).
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Thorleif,
> >
> >  Thanks for the feedback.  Like Brian mentioned, adding these gems is
> > easy for a Ruby user(we package rubygems).
> >
> >  We're looking at the problem of installing gem libraries into Ruby such
> > that it is both Solaris packaging and rubygems compatible.
> >  Once that piece is behind us, we will package individual gems, into our
> > Ruby packaging.
> >
> >  fyi - I added your requirements to the feature requests list at
> > http://wikis.sun.com/display/WebStack/Ruby+On+Rails+Stack+for+OpenSolaris
> >
> >  -ps
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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