[katello-devel] Bundler vs rpm-gems

[Petr Chalupa]

Interesting :), did you try to:

- yum install katello-all
- run bundle install development
- run katello

I am not sure if bundler finds rpm-gems because they are not in 
Gemfile.lock, from bundlers point of view they are not present.

Petr

On 22.08.12 17:21, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:
> On 22/08/12 09:48 AM, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:
>> Hey Petr,
>> I have a fix for this in my local branch, using aeolus' bundler_ext
>> [1] (which is now a gem). The only thing remaining is to create an rpm
>> for the gem, and make some minor changes to katello.spec.
>>
>> We can chat more if you'd like...
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/aeolus-incubator/bundler_ext
>>
>> -d
>>
>> On 22/08/12 09:39 AM, Petr Chalupa wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> as Ivan and Lukas said on mail-list, I had some ideas how to solve
>>> our bundler/rpm issues. Then I had discussion with Ivan and Mirek and
>>> here is the proposed solution.
>>>
>>> == Requirements
>>>
>>> When installing on fedora/rhel in production. Do not mess with the
>>> production setup, rpm gems are used, 'bundle install' wont install
>>> anything else.
>>>
>>> When installing on fedora/rhel in development. 'bundle install'
>>> prefers rpm-gems even if there is a newer gem in our gem-repo [2].
>>> Additional development dependencies are installed.
>
> Just realized that bundler supports this too. Create a group for
> development dependencies, install katello from rpm, run 'bundler install
> development' to install development-only gems.
>
> -d
>
>>>
>>> When installing on any other system (Debian, Ubuntu, Mac, ...) in
>>> development. 'bundle install' installs the same versions of gems as
>>> would be installed on fedora. Optionally (at least made it possible
>>> in the future) 'bundle install' installs not only the same versions
>>> but also gems including security fixes included in rpm-gems.
>>>
>>> == Proposal
>>>
>>> I'll add monkey patch to katello/master for bundler which will ensure
>>> that rpm-gems are preferred (even if they are older than gems in a
>>> gem-repo). It's based on bkabrda's patch [1].
>>>
>>> I'll ensure that our gem repo [2] contains all gems needed for
>>> katello development (some are still missing). This enables katello
>>> (rails app) to be installed on any system without rubygems.org.
>>>
>>> I would like to work on this in the next iteration. Also I would like
>>> to explore how difficult would be to create gem versions with
>>> security patches (which is important for non fedora development - me).
>>>
>>> We also discussed it would be nice to move our gem-repo to github a
>>> publish it on pages.github. The repo would be more visible. It would
>>> allow us to use pull-requests for tracking new gem-dependencies. It
>>> would be on one place.
>>>
>>> Petr
>>>
>>> [1] https://gist.github.com/2875212
>>> [2] http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/katello/gems/
>>>
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