Arch Linux and Rails
CommentsI got a bugreport that my Rails app doesn’t work properly on Arch Linux I hadn’t any experience with Arch Linux, but thanks to OpenVZ got it installed in a two minutes and start reading Beginner’s Guide.
The package manager is called packman here. I tried to install Ruby with packman -S ruby command and got Ruby 1.9 installed. Looks like a reason of failure of my Rails app.
After searching across the guide and in the Google found that get installed Ruby 1.8 is impossible with packman. Good article explaining on how to run Redmine on Arch Linux is present in Arch Linux Wiki Using these instructions my app was successfully launched on Arch Linux.
The only question I have why Arch Linux maintainers decided to switch to Ruby 1.9 package and even without giving an ability to install Ruby 1.8. Using yaourt for it’s installation doesn’t look like a native way.
