P.S. join ujsug if you haven't already. July's meeting will be on node.js... if I can find a venue...
I just compiled it yesterday.
That said, I've compiled ruby from source rather than using the distros' versions and it's been good for me.
AJ
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Miles, sorry to hear that. I was hoping to meet you at one of the urug meetings one of these months. Have fun in JS
The ruby community does feel like a bit of a mess right now, bundler
has a huge change, and it's going to change even further in 1.0. I
like bundler now (used to hate it)... but anyways, it's a good move.
It's caused me a lot of disorientation as a gem author, I'm held back
by bundler issues in 0.9.x to make some of my gems compatible with
rails 3.
As for distro versions of ruby: I wouldn't blame ruby for it, more the
distros. This is a problem is not unique to ruby. On Redhat, I had
to roll my own RPMs for git, nagios, and many more. They were all
super old on RedHat (which they do because they prioritize stability
high above freshness). V8 doesn't (won't) have this issue too?
Rails 3.0 is still in beta. Ruby 1.9.2 is expected in august. I
expect that the two will come out together. If you're not feeling
courageous and want to help improve things, I would suggest you stay
on rails 2.3. Seriously. It can hurt out here. And stay off of
bundler unless you need it. It's going to change again (for the
better) with 1.0.
The ruby community will pull through. It's hard times, indeed, these
are some growing pains, but good things are coming, and I can see it
coming back together, soon. When it does, the ecosystem will be much
better off.
But.. the question is how long people will tolerate the pain, and
which of those will react by saying "I still enjoy ruby enough and
want to make it better", and others who determine it's no longer worth
it and go elsewhere. Right now, the envelope is really being pushed,
isn't it?
Anyways, this is not to take away from all the fun you are having in
JS land. I wish you the best, Miles. We've been enjoying Clojure,
but still continue to use ruby for a variety of things.
Tim
As a pretty heavy JS developer myself, I'm searching for that happy
medium. I use Node for stuff that Node is really good at -- servers. I
use Ruby for stuff that Ruby is good at. The day may come that I'll
decide to go completely with one or the other, but it's not today.
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On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:49 PM, MilesTogoe <miles...@gmail.com> wrote: