[Nix-dev] Better support for Ruby

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On 26/07/2014 20:43, Charles Strahan wrote:
> 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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Excellent timing, I was just recently lamenting the... lacking state of 
nix+rubygems and documentation on using it. I can't say I have much to 
add, although something like the haskellPackages hierarchy for gems 
would certainly be nice to have, if that's on the cards.

- B