scott (at) rpath

For those who like to code in ruby and want to play around with installing RubyGems on their systems, feel free to try out my rubygems trove. Just point conary this way:

conary update rubygems=ruby.rpath.org@rpl:devel

Installing RubyGems requires setting GEM_HOME as an environment, variable; you'll have to source /etc/profile again to pick up the changes or re-login again after running the update.

Once you install RubyGems, then you can install all kinds of nifty stuff, like, say Rails.

ASIDE: one day, I would like to have Rails install using conary, but as other distros have noted, this is not an easy nut to crack. While I have created recipes and troves for Rails and its component parts (activerecord, actionpack, etc.) in ruby.rpath.org, they have not received the attention they sorely need, and thus, sadly, do not work at all.

One other thing: the ruby package in contrib.rpath.org now supports x86-64. Have at it!