Hello Duncan, > Depends on what your goal is and what your view on those > dependencies are. > If you want to get it into the distro, that is probably the right > strategy, but it will bring lot of maintenance with it, as people > will update gems and break your package.
My goal is to get it into the distro, to make it as easy as possible for others to install. Inspired by https://ourobengr.com/2013/10/tied-to-the-rails/ I made a patch to use the gem and require functions directly instead of using Bundler. I do know what you mean about updated gems breaking things however. I recently discovered that the versions of Reform and Reform::Rails I had packaged were too new and caused subtle problems. On the other hand, if I followed exactly what was in the Gemfile.lock, I would (still!) be missing the nice fix for a race condition that was added in delayed_cron_job 0.7.3. The Reform libraries also happen to be ones for which OpenProject loads overrides in config/initializers. If I keep to a single major version number (i.e. major.minor.bugfix) for all the "normal" libraries that aren't special cases like Reform, would you say that's a happy medium in terms of stability? Basically I've been putting something like "~> 2.5" instead of "~> 2.5.0" in my calls to the gem function. > If your goal is just to run it on a openSUSE system, you may also > look into the bundle_gems service > (https://github.com/openSUSE/obs-service-bundle_gems), which would > put all the dependencies inside the rpm of your Rails application. > > You can see software.opensuse.org spec file and _service to learn > how it is used: > https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:infrastructure:software.opensuse.org/software_opensuse_org Thanks for the pointer! Even if I'm not using Bundler, that specfile answers a few questions I had about best practices, like how to package the Apache vhost template. Any input on the Node dependencies dilemma I mentioned? Is it OK to use a "dependency pack" for that? Matthew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ruby+unsubscr...@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ruby+ow...@opensuse.org
