Gentoo Resources for Ruby

1. Project Description

The Ruby project maintains packages for Ruby implementations, libraries and development tools.

This project also maintains the RubyGems package, the de facto standard for packaging Ruby projects. Many Ruby packages currently in the Portage tree use this mechanism for installing.

Highlighted packages include Rake, Ruby on Rails, Capistrano, and RSpec, to name a few.

2. Developers

Developer	Nickname	Role
Joshua Nichols	nichoj	Lead ( Project Lead )
Aggelos Orfanakos	agorf	Member
Caleb Tennis	caleb	Member
Hans de Graaff	graaff	Member
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy	pclouds	Member
Christian Marie	pingu	Member
Rob Cakebread	pythonhead	Member
Robin H. Johnson	robbat2	Member

All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org.

3. Project tasks

The tasks of the Ruby project are:

Ruby 1.9 - Support for all Ruby packages with 1.9

Ruby 1.9 was released in December 2007, but Gentoo's Ruby infrastructure will need to be updated and tested before it can be properly supported.

Starting date:	12-29-2007

Milestone #	ETA	Description
1		Package Ruby 1.9
2		Support RubyGems being installed for multiple slots of Ruby

Build RubyGems - Generate and test from source

While packaging directly from gems is very convenient, it does have some draw backs, such as not being able to readily patch and not being able to run unit tests. Generating gems from source would address both these issues.