"Rubygems has many issues which were raised on ruby mailing lists but never addressed by the rubygems developers. It's therefore not possible to have rubygems-based packages in Debian or Ubuntu.
For more details, refer to : http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html " I'm not sure what you mean Lucas. That page specifically states that Debian will have a rubygems package with which you can install gems: "For Ruby developers requiring bleeding edge library versions or libraries that haven’t been packaged (yet), a rubygems package will be made available. This package provides the gem command to be able to install/remove gems at the developer’s own discretion and risk. The gems will be installed using the normal gem installation procedure, in usr/lib/ruby/gems." This sounds just like what we need. I don't understand why Ubuntu can't use the same mechanism or package as Debian. Not having access to gems basically makes it very cumbersome to develop web apps using rails. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for repackaging gems into Ubuntu packages. But it's not going to be feasible to keep up with the gems available or repackage all of them. To take a real example, I can't find any Ubuntu package that provides an authentication system for rails, even though there are many gems available for that: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Authentication I suppose for the time being an intermediate solution is to use the rubygems package in Debian: deb http://www.sgtpepper.net/hyspro/deb unstable/ deb-src http://www.sgtpepper.net/hyspro/deb unstable/ Cheers, Daniel -- Rails needs gems https://launchpad.net/bugs/34840 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
