August 26, 2013
How I Ruby, Part 2a: Deployment (Ruby)
In this post I’m going to show you how use ruby-install to build a Debian package of MRI itself, and put together a trivial apt repository so you can serve it on your local network. Why do this? First, you aren’t dependent on ftp.ruby-lang.org being available when you want to deploy. Second, that you don’t waste time during your deployment rebuilding a ruby binary. I’ve seen builds of ruby 2.
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