It also depends on how many machines you're managing. If you've got very many I'm with John: don't cross the streams. It's so easy to make RPMs from gems that there's really no reason not to if you need a newer version than what's provided.
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Craig White <craig.wh...@ttiltd.com> wrote: > > On Oct 18, 2011, at 6:19 AM, jcbollinger 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. > ---- > probably depends upon your ruby needs. If all you need is puppet then this > might be reasonable but if you are actually doing anything else with ruby, > you are going to need access to many gems that aren't going to be available > in rpm packages or like many other things with OS distribution packages, may > be very outdated. > > The ruby community has been extremely active in solving the complexities > involved in deploying all things ruby and things like bundler and gem clearly > are more versatile on virtually every platform. > > Craig > > -- > 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.
