New Charm ruby-193-p194-from-source

[Adrien Lamothe]

ruby-193-p194-from-source is a charm that builds ruby 1.9.3-p194 from source. It first does apt-get for necessary libraries, then uses wget to get the source tarball, then extracts, configures, builds and installs the software. ruby 1.9.3-p194 is then installed in /usr/local/bin/rubydir and any gems subsequently installed are installed under that directory.

The rationale for this charm: there have been problems with both Deb packaging of Ruby as well as flakiness of RVM. For this reason, some people prefer installing Ruby from source. Starting with Ruby 1.9, all gems and utilities are installed within a common directory rather than scattered thoughout the system directory tree; this greatly simplifies installation and management of Ruby and Ruby gems.

This charm is also a simple proof-of-concept (at least for myself) to see how well juju handles building from source code.

[Adrien Lamothe (alamo)]

Changed the name of this charm to juju-ruby