Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.6-20090113 released, thanks sponsors!
Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.6-20090113 has been released. This version is sponsored by a number of people and organizations. Please read this page for the announcement.
Archive for January, 2009
Progress report: Ruby Enterprise Edition documentation
One of the goals of the second Ruby Enterprise Edition sponsorship campaign is to have better documentation. I’m almost done with the documentation, and a preview is a available here.
Some REE features involve setting environment variables. Setting environment variables in the shell by calling ‘export FOO=bar’ has no permanent effect. Setting the environment variables in bashrc/profile is permanent, but doesn’t always work; for example Apache (and other processes which are typically started by the system init process) ignores bashrc/profile. There’s /etc/environment, but this seems to be Linux-specific, perhaps even Debian-specific.
Does anybody know a cross-platform method to permanently set environment variables for all processes? If no such method exists, how would one permanently set environment variables in FreeBSD, OS X and Solaris?
DebGem now supports x86 Debian 4.0 (Etch)
It has been a day since we’ve launched DebGem, our RubyGems-to-Apt conversion service. Today we’ve added support for gems with native extensions for x86 Debian 4.0 (Etch). See the full announcement.
Announcing DebGem (beta), the RubyGem-to-Apt conversion service
There has been a lot of noise about RubyGems-vs-Apt lately. We’ve just launched DebGem, a RuyGem-to-Apt conversion service. Now Debian/Ubuntu users will be able to manage all their favorite Ruby software through a single package manager!
Please refer to our announcement or the DebGem website for more information.