Hi Prashant, The rails site still lists ruby 1.8.5 as the required version. Do we know if there are any issues with 1.8.6 and rails 1.2.3 ?
Shanti Prashant Srinivasan wrote: > Hello Webstackers, > > Here are Ruby/Rails components for inclusion, and brief notes on what > the component is(or why it is included). The items that are included > should make for a basic Ruby/Rails installation. "Basic" being defined > as the components required to build, and conveniently use a Ruby On > Rails stack. > > The other pieces defined as basic, but not a part of the core Ruby > build, include gems, the Ruby package management system, Mongrel, which > is a Ruby based HTTP server that is a good fit for easy deployment of > Rails applications, and RedCloth, which is needed to be able to > successfully complete a Rails tutorial on the rails web site. The FCGI > connector for Ruby is included. We'd need the adapter on the Apache > side to be bundled with the AMP stack, as well, for this to be more useful. > > As far as native extensions are concerned, readline is, to use an > oxymoron, a "core extension". curses, ncurses, and openssl extensions > can be obtained for free, since they are already available in Nevada. > > The doors extension, and the kstat extension, exist, but the former, in > my opinion, is too new(a month old?). And the latter appears immature > on x86(also not a complete extension). If anyone feels that they are > still worth including, do let me know. > > Mechanize, and gdbm are on TBD list, since we don't know yet if these > are popular enough. > > The list: > > Major components: > ------------------------ > -> Ruby 1.8.6 patchupdate 5000 (GPL) > The Ruby Binary. > > -> Rails 1.2.3 (MIT License) > Rails and constituent libraries without which it cannot be called Rails. > > Other Important Ruby Programs/Libraries(both concomitant and ones > explicitly included into this stack): > ----------------------------------------------------- > -> erb - part of Ruby distribution. > Interpretor for Ruby embedded in, say HTML files. > > -> irb - part of Ruby distribution. > Interactive Ruby Shell > > -> testrb - part of Ruby distribution > Used to run tests/test suites. > > -> rake - dependency for rails. > Ruby build tool. > > -> ri - part of Ruby distribution > Ruby documentation viewer > > > -> rdoc - part of Ruby distribution > Used to generate documentation from Ruby programs. > > -> gem 0.9.0 - explicitly included. > Ruby package manager. > > -> Mongrel 1.0.1 - explicitly included > (Ruby HTTP web server that affords easy development/deployment). (GPL) > > -> Ruby-fcgi package 0.8.7 > (for web server support like Apache/Lighty etc.,) (GPL) [FastCGI 2.4.0 > is a dependency for this package] > > -> RedCloth 3.0.4 > (Textile parsing library - need this for starter tutorial on > rubyonrails.org to work). (BSD) > > Extensions > -> readline 5.2 (basic console support for Ruby and Rails) (Native GNU > readline, released under the GPL, is needed). > -> OpenSSL support - use version in Solaris. (get this for free by > linking with /usr/sfw openssl). > -> Curses - use version in Nevada. > -> TK - use version in Nevada. > -> ncurses - use version in Nevada. > > TBD, and the "Rather not include at this time" dependencies: > -> Mechanize (port of Perl's mechanize - a Ruby library to help script > HTTP/S interactions) > -> Kstat extension(doesn't work well enough) > -> GDBM > -> doors(too new) > > Regards, > -ps > _______________________________________________ > webstack-discuss mailing list > webstack-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/webstack-discuss
