[BioRuby] Ruby installation

[Pjotr Prins]

So we are proposing that newbies use a VM, instead of building from
source? Sorry guys, but that solution does not work for my 'newbie'
use case. We are still offering expert advice here to experts. The
main downside of a VM is that you need to teach someone to use a
second environment.

When I give the instruction:

  apt-get install ruby
  gem install bioruby-table

it should just work out of the box. Anywhere.

I am actually looking at GNU GUIX

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6891214

which, as it happens, works great in Docker too. The future should look

  apt-get install guix
  guix install ruby
  gem install bioruby-table

which is a binary install and should work in any environment.

Let's fix Ruby/Perl/Python dependency hell for once and all. It is not
that hard with the right choices. GUIX/NIX gets things right, unlike
rvm, VM's, and such. 

Pj. (lone prophet in desert)

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 06:27:33PM -0700, Michael Barton wrote:
> I have been using Docker a lot. I think it's excellent. The ability to wrap
> a program up with it's own environment is very powerful. For example you
> can upgrade software to faster, newer runtimes without having to wait to
> upgrade the global system runtime.