# Better from ebuild or gem?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/better-from-ebuild-or-gem/88913>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 15, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/better-from-ebuild-or-gem/88913 "2007-03-15T15:23:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/better-from-ebuild-or-gem/88913/1 "2007-03-15T15:23:42Z")

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hi, with gentoo what is better? install things with ebuild/emerge or  
with gem? for example rails, capistrano, etc

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**Author:** ![david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/better-from-ebuild-or-gem/88913/2 "2007-03-15T20:14:21Z")

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Some people like to only deal with one package manager (gem is just  
portage for Ruby really). However, Portage is probably going to be a bit  
behind the gem version, and there will probably be some gems that just  
aren’t available in Portage.

I guess it really just depends on how big a fan of Portage you are. A  
sane strategy might be to just install Ruby and Rubygems from Portage  
and then do everything else from gems. Ymmv.

b

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**Author:** ![david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/better-from-ebuild-or-gem/88913/3 "2007-03-16T22:30:43Z")

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On Mar 15, 2007, at 12:13 PM, Ben M. wrote:

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> david wrote:
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> > hi, with gentoo what is better? install things with ebuild/emerge or  
> > with gem? for example rails, capistrano, etc

On all my gentoo systems we install ruby and rubygems from portage  
and then install gems thru rubygems from then on. That being said  
portage is smart about gems and when you install a gem thru portage  
it merges it into your rubygems install as if you installed it via  
rubygems, pretty slick. But I still prefer to have rubygems manage  
all gems.

Cheers-

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**Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 2:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/better-from-ebuild-or-gem/88913/4 "2007-03-17T02:25:15Z")

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Though it is not standard Gentoo practice, I follow Ezra’s example,  
and install ruby and rubygems from the tree, and manage all the gems  
with the gem command thereafter.

Aaron K.  
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**Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 5:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/better-from-ebuild-or-gem/88913/5 "2007-03-17T05:07:24Z")

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That, and I need to apologize for my earlier top-post. I was keying  
that in from a phone, and there wasn’t a way to do it right.

So if I ruffled any feathers, it wasn’t intentional. 😉

Cheers,

Aaron K.  
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