[BioRuby] Ruby installation

[Pjotr Prins]

Yes, I am talking newbies.

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:28:51PM +0200, Gianluca Della Vedova wrote:
> 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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