Forum: Ruby on Rails Gentoo for Rails?

I'm curious to know why Gentoo is a very commonly used distro for the
Rails community. Any reasons for this?

On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 11:58:12AM -0700, Sal wrote:
> I'm curious to know why Gentoo is a very commonly used distro for the
> Rails community. Any reasons for this?

I think you may have been misled. I mostly hear about Ubuntu, though I 
know
there are lots of deployments on RHEL and CentOS.

--Greg

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Gregory Seidman
<gsslist+ror@anthropohedron.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 11:58:12AM -0700, Sal wrote:
>> I'm curious to know why Gentoo is a very commonly used distro for the
>> Rails community. Any reasons for this?
>
> I think you may have been misled. I mostly hear about Ubuntu, though I know
> there are lots of deployments on RHEL and CentOS.

I agree.  I've not heard of a single Gentoo + Rails deployment, ever.
I'm sure some exist but no one is really blogging about them or
anything.  Linux is 99% the same from distro to distro.. same gcc,
same glibc, same kernel, just slightly different versions.  The major
difference is the package management, and that's a tiny, tiny piece of
the overall pie.


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Greg Donald
destiney.com | gregdonald.com

On Jul 8, 4:41 pm, Greg Donald <gdon...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree.  I've not heard of a single Gentoo + Rails deployment, ever.
> I'm sure some exist but no one is really blogging about them or
> anything.  Linux is 99% the same from distro to distro.. same gcc,
> same glibc, same kernel, just slightly different versions.  The major
> difference is the package management, and that's a tiny, tiny piece of
> the overall pie.
>

For what it's worth Engineyard use gentoo (but I agree that you hear
far more about people using ubuntu)

Fred

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Frederick Cheung
<frederick.cheung@gmail.com> wrote:
> For what it's worth Engineyard use gentoo (but I agree that you hear
> far more about people using ubuntu)

Ahh.. that explains why the prices are so high.  Their electric bill
must be through the roof from all that compilation.


--
Greg Donald
destiney.com | gregdonald.com

I had a much easier time installing rails on gentoo then ubuntu.

Of course on gentoo you have a lot more control over what's installed
with the price of knowing what to install.

Any distro will do though. I'd suggest looking into rvm as well.

I Work rails on my beauty Gentoo System, i find hard install rails over
Ubuntu because you need know each package to install :-(, on Gentoo is 
easy.



On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Agoofin <thebserviss@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
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Atte. ISC. Gerardo González Cruz

On 9 July 2010 00:32, Gerardo Gonzalez Cruz <gerardogc2378@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> I Work rails on my beauty Gentoo System, i find hard install rails over
> Ubuntu because you need know each package to install :-(, on Gentoo is easy.


Really?

apt-get install ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev rubygems
gem update --system
gem install rails passenger

Configure Passenger as normal.

What's hard?

Cheers,


Andy

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Andy Jeffries <andy@andyjeffries.co.uk> 
wrote:
> What's hard?
> Cheers,
>
gem update --system used to be forbidden on Debian and Debian-like
distros. (I don't know if this is still like this), this added to the
usually outdated ruby packages used to be a headache.
However, you can install the rubygems-update gem and update it with
sudo update_rubygems. And that solves all the problem.

Anyway, now with RVM, the distro should be irrelevant as long as it is
a "full" distro which grants you a decent package repository if you
need any dependency.

Please don't make it a flame war about linux distros.
To the OP, I really haven't heard about any Gentoo user in the rails
community so far, if I have to say there's a predminant OS in the
rails community that would be Mac OS. (And I don't know why either)

Cheers.
--
Leonardo Mateo.
There's no place like ~

>
> Please don't make it a flame war about linux distros.
> To the OP, I really haven't heard about any Gentoo user in the rails
> community so far, if I have to say there's a predminant OS in the
> rails community that would be Mac OS. (And I don't know why either)
>

As a Mac OS X user I don't particularly care about which distro to use 
(so I
had no intention of making it a flame war), I was just trying to point 
out
that it's not that hard :-)

Cheers,


Andy

Yes really:

shell$ emerge rails
and the same commands

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Andy Jeffries 
<andy@andyjeffries.co.uk>wrote:

> gem install rails passenger
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Atte. ISC. Gerardo González Cruz

Anything but Windows. My company tried to get me to deploy on Win Server
2008. 3 days of hell... not just annoying hell, headbanging against wall
hell. I dont think anyone could pay me to try that again. Ubuntu Server 
-
1/2 day. I am also sure Gentoo is better than Win :)

Yeah i am sure about this... :-D Windows sucks.

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Atte. ISC. Gerardo González Cruz

I'm a big fan of Rails on Gentoo - RoR 3.x is working great here -
http://praxis.edoceo.com/howto/rails