Parker Selbert wrote: > Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: >> >> What's the advantage of not using sudo for gems? And for Rails 2.x, why >> would you want anything past 1.8.7? > > Aside from the security aspect, which isn't something I'm concerned > about in this context, there is just the simplification. Getting > identical, portable environments is a far bigger advantage which I > should probably have focused on. > > Also, I have been using ~1.9.2 for 2.3.x with great success for a little > while now. The only issue I've ever run into was with TMail.
Interesting. I've heard enough about gem incompatibilities that I wasn't planning to start using 1.9 with Rails until I start using Rails 3. > >> Don't get me wrong, I think RVM is a great idea and I will probably end >> up using it in the near future. I just don't think it offers much of >> anything in the OP's situation as presented. > > Perhaps not, but as somebody that went through the issues of installing > from MacPorts and then compiled manually, and then had ruby and ruby19 > installed side by side and switched using a Bash alias it would have > been great to know RVM existed a bit sooner. Yeah, I'm glad that I know it exists before I actually need it. :) Although come to think of it, I may actually need it for my one JRuby project... > Just spreading the word! Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
