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On the maintainability of Ruby

Posted Jan 21, 2011 15:31 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to: On the maintainability of Ruby by lambda
Parent article: On the maintainability of Ruby

Ah yes, everyone is eager to blindly pipe a remote script into bash.... :-/

Sorry, looks like either installation instructions have changed since I installed it, or I misremembered. I'm pretty sure the system-wide install instructions are new though.

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Posted Jan 22, 2011 0:33 UTC (Sat) by lambda (subscriber, #40735) [Link]

Have you never downloaded a tarball, untarred it, and run ./configure; make; make install before? I don't really see the difference between this and that. And if you want, you can download the script, inspect it first, and then run it; there's no reason to follow the directions exactly. My point is that RVM doesn't depend on Ruby or RubyGems as it is just a collection of shell scripts to make it easier for you to manage several copies of Ruby and RubyGems.

On the maintainability of Ruby

Posted Jan 24, 2011 17:45 UTC (Mon) by docwhat (subscriber, #40373) [Link]

It changed a while ago. The gem just uses a slightly different way to do the same thing. RVM really lives outside of Ruby, so using a gem isn't really appropriate. In fact, it's confusing since it won't update your RVM installation in .rvm if the rvm gem updated.

Ciao!