[BioRuby] Ruby installation

Wed Apr 30 15:36:35 UTC 2014

FWIW, Perl has been down this road, and I see history repeating itself unfortunately.  I’ve started looking into alternate solutions for these things myself; for perl there is Pinto, but as a more generic solution Docker seems very promising for this:

    https://www.docker.io

Re: Software Carpentry, they are very much a python/R-driven thing in our experience, for good or bad. 

Just curious, but is this related to Ruby 1.7->Ruby 2?  I know the Python community is going through a bit of a similar situation with Python2->3 transition, in that uptake of Python3 isn’t going so well.

chris

On Apr 30, 2014, at 8:21 AM, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public14 at thebird.nl> wrote:

> Yes, I am talking newbies.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:28:51PM +0200, Gianluca Della Vedova wrote:
>> Hi Pjotr,
>> what's the intended audience (total newbies, new to ruby but with fair
>> computer experience, etc.)? Building from source might be suited only
>> for experienced people.
>> 
>> Albeit not related to Ruby, IMO the software carpentry group have
>> dealing with the same issues for some time (they tend to use VMs for
>> teaching, I don't know if that would be fine for your purposes).
>> 
>> My experience with rbenv when I started exploring ruby has been good.
>> YMMV.
>> 
>> Best,
>> --
>> Gianluca Della Vedova
>> http://gianluca.dellavedova.org
>> On 29/04/2014 at 07:14, Pjotr Prins 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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