[BioRuby] Ruby installation

[Gianluca Della Vedova]

On 30/04/2014 at 17:36, Fields, Christopher J wrote:

>Re: Software Carpentry, they are very much a python/R-driven thing in 
>our experience, for good or bad.

Yes, they are python-centric. Still, they focus on biologists lacking 
basic computational skills, so the audience is more-or-less the same as 
Pjotr. And they have plenty of experience.


>
>Just curious, but is this related to Ruby 1.7->Ruby 2?  I know the Python community is going through a bit of a similar situation with Python2->3 transition, in that uptake of Python3 isn’t going so well.
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>chris
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>On Apr 30, 2014, at 8:21 AM, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public14 at thebird.nl> wrote:
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>> 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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