[katello-devel] moving to ruby 1.9.3

[Dmitri Dolguikh]

On 17/10/12 05:04 PM, Jason Rist wrote:
> On 10/17/2012 09:37 AM, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:
>> As part of port to Ruby 1.9.3, I'd suggest moving away from custom ruby
>> repository for bundler-based installs, and switch to rubygems.org
>> repository instead. Folks still would rather use Fedora-provided gems
>> can do so, since Fedora 17 versions of 'bundler' and 'gem' are
>> yum-aware. This would simplify dependency management during development.
>>
>>
>> As the next step I'd like to propose to switch to rails 3.2 (the version
>> of Rails that's going to be shipped with f18) in master (which is what
>> Aeolus folks did).
>>
>>
>> -d
>>
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>
> I think this is what we should have been doing.  Can we not develop
> upstream in a more normal rails fashion and then deal with packaging and
> the like downstream? Or is that too much work?
>

I'm not sure why we aren't doing this atm. Considering that we have a 
suite of integration tests that is being run *after* katello has been 
packaged, it's safe to split development and packaging - we are able to 
catch the issues.

-d