Hi, I have a working Ruby installation at
https://gitorious.org/guix/pjotrps-guix/source/61d21fad72d49cbbf0135b5ac7362bb0f64167fa:gnu/packages/ruby.scm This is my first GUIX package (I have written Nix packages before), so please have a look. I intend to patch rubygems so gems get installed in a $HOME dir specifically named after the SHA. This will accomodate people who just want to use rubygems. I am also going to add particalur gems to GUIX, each going into its own expression. That will be a bit tricky because I don't want Rubygems to install dependencies. Not sure how the Nix guys did it, so I will study that. Do we have a HOWTO on how to run expressions in the Guile debugger? Never used that and would like to see how individual statements evaluate in LISP. I am really impressed with GUIX, and I think it is a no-brainer to use a real functional programming language for this. Thanks Ludo and others! I just wish I could use GUIX on servers where I don't have (and won't get) root access. Or is there a way? With Nix I could run as a normal user. Pj.
