On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:19 AM, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org> wrote: > > > On Oct 17, 3:03 pm, Russell Van Tassell <russel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Personally, I've had better luck letting gem managed its own gems, rather >> than depending on Yum repositories (specifically on CentOS). >> >> I'd take a list of the Ruby gems you've installed via rpm (rpm -q -a | grep >> ruby) and then consider installing them directly, as so: >> >> % sudo gem install mysql >> % sudo gem list > > > I, on the other hand, would recommend avoiding gems altogether if > you're using the system's Ruby (i.e. one you installed from an RPM, > whether via yum or otherwise). Ruby modules installed via RPM are not > (should not be) gems. Using both gem and rpm to manage the same Ruby > installation is begging for trouble.
Why? The packages of many ruby libraries are basically gems wrapped in RPM. Basically it allows the library/tool to be registered with the RPM and gem database. I admit it's not my favorite thing to have gems (and not RPMs), but technically there is almost nothing wrong with it, other than future RPMs can't depend on something from a gem install only. There are plenty of other debates about rubygems, and whether or not they are useful or helpful or anything. But as far as having a system with ruby and using to gem to install things, it will work and is always all that bad. > > > John > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
