[BioRuby] Ruby installation

[Gianluca Della Vedova]

On 01/05/2014 at 09:39, Pjotr Prins wrote:

>On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 08:21:03AM +0100, Iain Barnett wrote:
>
>I simply care about others using my software. What they experience is
>that it is too HARD to use my software. The HARD part is deployment.
>Which sucks because I write great software ;). I am not targeting Ruby
>programmers here, my first audience is people who want to run a Ruby
>tool on the command line without everythink exploding in their face.
>
>But even a newbie should be able to simply install a tool and program
>
>  require 'bio'.
>
>It is amazing how many fail around me. I can only guess to extrapolate
>what that means on a mondial scale. Ruby is going to lose out. Better
>have them learn some easier to deploy language if we remain in this
>mind set - that is what I am thinking.

Not sure that is only (or mainly) a Ruby problem. What language leads to 
easier deployment? Besides php, I can't find any.

>
>When you actually read
>
>  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6891214
>
>Ruby is mentioned specifically. Yesterday, on Slashdot the same
>
>  'Ruby makes sysadmins cry. I tried updating a legacy server yesterday that is running a ruby app. After two hours of trying to make it work, I gave up.'
>
>in
>
>  http://ask.slashdot.org/story/14/04/30/1344224/c-and-the-stl-12-years-later-what-do-you-think-now?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
>
>I am not making this up. These are both non-Ruby threads! We have a real and
>acute problem if you start reading up on this shit and see people struggle.
That's true. But in this case we are not talking about newbies. The 
solution could be different.

Anyway, I am interested in finding a better way to setup a teaching 
environment for students/newbies. 
>
>rvm's and VM are actually the problem, not the solution. We are happy
>in our own little boxes ignoring the outside world. Remember some
>facts about evolution?
>
>We need to come up with a sensible protocol that I can give to any
>student for his laptop and any system adminstrator on a compute
>cluster.
>
>Software is software. We can solve it. The only reason we are not
>solving it is that *we* do not really care about other users. We are
>ignoring them.
>
>Pj.
>
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