[BioRuby] Ruby installation

[Iain Barnett]

VMs are easy, just install the software, then run the the file.

Some package manager that still isn't ready for 1.0 release, not so much.
>From the link:

>  ocharles 139 days ago | link
>
> I have been using NixOS as my primary OS for the best part of half a year
now (maybe more). I haven't looked back since :) I do warn people though -
it's not as featureful as other distributions, so you have to be willing to
help out. I'm approaching my 100th commit on the project, I believe.

Definitely not for newbies.

Regards,
Iain


On 1 May 2014 07:31, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public14 at thebird.nl> wrote:

> 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.
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