[Nix-dev] building ruby package utf-8 needed

[Matthew O'Gorman]

I was able to get everything compiled and running by doing this to the
gem builder. I realize it's wrong way to do this as it effects all
pkgs. but something like this would work i think.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/ruby-modules/gem/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ruby-modules/gem/default.nix
index 347c4a7..a225a31 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/ruby-modules/gem/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/ruby-modules/gem/default.nix
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 # $out/bin.
 
 { lib, fetchurl, fetchgit, makeWrapper, git, darwin
-, ruby, bundler
+, ruby, bundler, glibcLocales
 } @ defs:
 
 lib.makeOverridable (
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (attrs // {
   inherit type;
 
   buildInputs = [
-    ruby makeWrapper
+    ruby makeWrapper glibcLocales
   ] ++ lib.optionals (type == "git") [ git bundler ]
     ++ lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin darwin.libobjc
     ++ buildInputs;
@@ -152,6 +152,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (attrs // {
   installPhase = attrs.installPhase or ''
     runHook preInstall
 
+    export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
+    export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
+
     export GEM_HOME=$out/${ruby.gemPath}
     mkdir -p $GEM_HOME
 


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