Re: Best practice regarding Ruby gems installation on Buster
Hi Dan,
30 mars 2020 à 19:18 de dsr@randomstring.org:
> l0f4r0@tuta.io wrote:
>
>>
>> So if I've quite understood, at work you have 2 ruby environments:
>> * /usr/bin/ruby ->??ruby-$VERSIONX: you let Debian deal with it and you personally don't mess with it, except for updating Ruby and its gems when Debian itself provides new versions.
>> * /opt/ruby-$VERSIONY: you have your own gem repository so you and your colleagues can install/update/remove any gem depending on your specific needs.
>> Right?
>>
>
> We don't touch the Debian-provided Ruby at all; if something
> we've installed *for the system* wants Ruby, the Debian Ruby
> environment provides it. For systems administration, we think
> that the Debian Ruby folks know what they are doing.
>
> /opt/ruby-$VERSION (and there can be a bunch of them) contains
> both packaged ruby binaries and gem libraries pulled from our
> own repo. For developing our own software, we want more recent
> versions and we want tight control over which versions we use.
>
Yes, I think we are on the same wavelength :)
Thanks again.
Best regards,
l0f4r0
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