[Nix-dev] "nix-env -i ruby" installs bundler, not ruby

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

On 03/09/2015 04:58 PM, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm on the stable 14.12 branch and decided to install ruby:
> 
>   $ ruby
>   The program ‘ruby’ is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
>     nix-env -i ruby
> 
> But what I get from running "nix-env -i ruby" is not ruby, it's bundler!
> 
> Here is a the snippet that shows the issue:
> 
>   $ nix-env -qaP | grep ruby
>   nixos.pkgs.ruby              ruby-1.9.3-p547
>   nixos.pkgs.bundler          ruby-1.9.3-p547-bundler-1.7.9
> 
> Any rubyists that can fix the naming scheme so installation by name
> works as expected?
> 
> - Bjørn
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Just use -iA, such naming issues are precisely why just -i is not sane
and that is on top of how inefficient it is.

-- 
Mateusz K.