[BioRuby] Ruby installation

[Pjotr Prins]

Hi everyone,

It used to be that Ruby was easy to install.

But the last years I find people are having real trouble installing
Ruby and gems. I also run into odd annoyances, even if I can handle
rvm myself. I am running into this because I am teaching people to use
my gems :). I think it is too hard for a language that is supposed to
be easy.

Anyone disagree?

Can we develop a best practise protocol that works for our gems at
least on all Linux distributions? What would be the best way? And
maybe we can extend to OSX and Windows later.

Homebrew would be nice, but it needs a good Ruby to bootstrap. RVM is
too tricky.

Do we need to build from source, perhaps? Or start using GUIX?

Any suggestions other then use my 'favorite' distribution are welcome.

Pj.