[BioRuby] Ruby installation

[Gianluca Della Vedova]

Hi Pjotr,
what's the intended audience (total newbies, new to ruby but with fair
computer experience, etc.)? Building from source might be suited only
for experienced people.

Albeit not related to Ruby, IMO the software carpentry group have
dealing with the same issues for some time (they tend to use VMs for
teaching, I don't know if that would be fine for your purposes).

My experience with rbenv when I started exploring ruby has been good.
YMMV.

Best,
--
Gianluca Della Vedova
http://gianluca.dellavedova.org
On 29/04/2014 at 07:14, Pjotr Prins wrote:

>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.
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