[BioRuby] Ruby installation

[Iain Barnett]

What kind of problems are you having with RVM?

Regards,
Iain


On 29 April 2014 06:14, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public14 at thebird.nl> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> It used to be that Ruby was easy to install.
>
> But the last years I find people are having real trouble installing
> Ruby and gems. I also run into odd annoyances, even if I can handle
> rvm myself. I am running into this because I am teaching people to use
> my gems :). I think it is too hard for a language that is supposed to
> be easy.
>
> Anyone disagree?
>
> Can we develop a best practise protocol that works for our gems at
> least on all Linux distributions? What would be the best way? And
> maybe we can extend to OSX and Windows later.
>
> Homebrew would be nice, but it needs a good Ruby to bootstrap. RVM is
> too tricky.
>
> Do we need to build from source, perhaps? Or start using GUIX?
>
> Any suggestions other then use my 'favorite' distribution are welcome.
>
> Pj.
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