Comment 6 for bug 393888

On 22/01/10 at 17:57 -0000, Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen wrote:
> I've nominated this for server-papercuts. Although it's not that
> important, it's sort of annoying that ruby scripts can't deal with
> curses properly when using 1.9. It means no diakonos, but worse: no io
> terminal based ruby scripts.
>
> Also, outside of this bug scope, (i'm sorry to put this here) but I
> would like the server guys to try to get the ruby platform together.
> Debian has completely ____ up their ruby support.
>
> My suggestion is quite simple. Make ruby default to 1.9.2
> And create a ruby-passenger-apache metapackage. One that actually works.
> This would install passenger, ruby, gem and configure apache.
>
> Just because we can do apt-get install rails, doesn't mean it's wise and
> EVERYBODY is advising against it.
>
> For your information to current workaround EVERBODY uses for ruby now is:
> - install build-essentials, apache dev-headers
> - download ruby
> - compile and install ruby yourself (which by default includes gem now)
> - gem install passenger
> - passenger-install-apache module
>
> What it should be like:
> - apt-get install ruby1.9.2 gem1.9.2
> - apt-get install apache-module-passenger
> - gem install rails
>
> Rails shouldn't be packaged. Sites we make or share don't work with rails.
> They work with a specific version of rails. Gem can install any version side-by-side.
>
> Oh now, we are at it, diakonos has a new upstream version as well that fixes a few annoying bugs.
> Diakonos should be a great contenter for default text-editor on the ubuntu server platform.
> (it has all the nice vim features, but defaults to keybindings of gedit/kedit .. )
> Diakonos requires 1.9.2 .. btw .. i don't know why current package depends on ruby1.8 (it's a mistake)
>
> Please, for the LTS release, make ruby support less of nightmare.
> We would be even better off with not having any ruby related package in the repositories, if you can't fix the current ones, because that would save a lot of people a lot of time.

Thank you for this great off-topic and useless contribution.
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