[BioRuby] Installing Ruby 1.9 on CentOS 5.4

[Peter Cock]

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Raoul Bonnal <bonnal at ingm.org> wrote:
> Hi Peter, CentOS 5.4 seems to be very old the lates is 5.7 and I would say
> it has very old packages.

I agree that CenOS 5.4 is very old, but we're stuck with it I'm afraid :(

> Probably the best thing to do is to help Peter in setting up a VM with a pre
> installed Ruby environment, what about using CloudBioLinux as base distro
> for testing ?

As I've said before, having (at least one) CloudBioLinux installation as
a buildslave is a wonderful idea. But one of my aims in having a pool of
buildslaves is to cover as many likely end user configurations as possible.
So I think is it sensible to include BioRuby and Ruby installed from source
on an otherwise solid/old Linux distribution.

Peter