[Nix-dev] Better support for Ruby

[Charles Strahan]

Hi all,

There was some recent talk about difficulty with Nix+Ruby
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/13381>, and from
the looks of it, it's been a couple years since the Ruby infrastructure in
Nixpkgs was last touched (the `nix' rubygems plugin itself was last
released in 2011).

I will be using/supporting Ruby in my soon-to-be job (after about 7 months
of fantastic funemployment time :D), so it's very important to me that Nix
has good ruby/gem/bundler support. As I will be pushing for the production
use of NixOS, I'll have quite some skin in the game.

Given both my own interests in the success of Ruby on Nix and my experience
with Ruby and its packaging, I would like to coordinate development efforts
in this area. I would love to hear about particular use cases and any
problems with the current setup, and what features you don't care for (that
way we aren't limited by legacy design choices). I will soon begin work on
an alternative to the old `nix' gem, and I'll see if I can get Bundler
working well too.

Feel free to further develop this thread, or if you want to quickly hash
things out, you can find me on #nixos as cstrahan. I get alerts on my phone
when my name is mentioned, so I should be fairly responsive.

-Charles
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