So, why no Ruby Gems yet?

[Scott J. Henson]

Michael T. Richter wrote:
> I finally got around to installing Edgy on my testbed (and undoing some
> of its obnoxious behaviour on installation like "correcting" all my boot
> devices to be its partition....) and started to install the tools I
> need/like/want.  One of those is Ruby 1.8.  I've noticed since Breezy
> that Ruby Gems has not yet been packaged for Ubuntu and this confuses
> me.  The fact that someone is packaging Ruby at all indicates that
> someone, somewhere likes Ruby enough to go through the backflips.  Yet
> I'd be hard-pressed to find a deep Ruby user who doesn't use Gems.  Is
> there some technical reason I'm unaware of making Ruby Gems not get
> packaged or is it a matter of missing manpower?

Don't know why it wasn't done for edgy, but I have good news...

scotth at wildfire:~$ apt-cache policy rubygems
rubygems:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.9.0-5
  Version table:
     0.9.0-5 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Packages


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Scott Henson
LCSEE Systems Staff
WVU MAE Undergraduate
Ubuntu User