Equivalent of Python's virtualenv

Does anyone know of a Ruby equivalent of Python’s virtualenv? I need to
start getting up to speed on some stuff and think this would be a great
way to do it… Safely.

Thanks in advance.

T. B. wrote:

Does anyone know of a Ruby equivalent of Python’s virtualenv? I need to
start getting up to speed on some stuff and think this would be a great
way to do it… Safely.

Perhaps Try Ruby would have something useful? I think it’s
open-source.

Thanks in advance.

Best,
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Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser [email protected]
wrote:

T. B. wrote:

Does anyone know of a Ruby equivalent of Python’s virtualenv? I need to
start getting up to speed on some stuff and think this would be a great
way to do it… Safely.

Perhaps Try Ruby would have something useful? I think it’s
open-source.

Maintainer of Try Ruby here.

No Try Ruby isn’t a sandbox, at least not yet.
That’s what I was asking about the other day.

Your best bet would be a Rakefile that freezes the gems you want
isolated and maybe use ruby version manager.

The why_sandbox isn’t ready for 1.9 and is only a sandbox in the sense
that it overwrites certain method calls like File and Kernel.

Andrew McElroy

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:24 PM, T. B. [email protected] wrote:

Does anyone know of a Ruby equivalent of Python’s virtualenv? I need to
start getting up to speed on some stuff and think this would be a great
way to do it… Safely.

Rip seems like it’s pretty close to being ideal for what you want:

http://hellorip.com