Ruby SIG

= Ruby Special Interest Group =

A SIG for people who are interested in improving the state of Ruby in Fedora. This includes packaging Ruby libraries and applications, setting and improving standards for packaging them as RPM's and maintaining Ruby packages for Fedora.

State of Affairs
Packaging Ruby libraries and applications for Fedora is still in its infancy, and only very few RPM's are available. We hope that this situation will improve dramatically over the next few months; that means that you, dear reader, can become a hero by packaging your favorite piece of Ruby code as an RPM and submitting it to Fedora.

We are working on the migration to Ruby 1.9. See The Road to Ruby 1.9

Creating RPM's
The guidelines for building Ruby packages can be found on a  separate page.

Oliver Andrich has created a specfile template for Ruby packages that is included in rpmdevtools 1.5 and later. Please start with this template when packaging Ruby code for Fedora.

Gems and RPM
Ruby has its own packaging format, gem, meant to be a cross-platform way to distribute Ruby software. Gems carry much of the metadata that RPM's carry, but not all of it, and because of their cross-platform nature violate the LSB. Gems that contain shared libraries also do not play nicely with multilib.

gem2rpm is now available as, and obsoletes.

Mailing list
mailing list

Currently Open Ruby Package Review Bugs
The Ruby SIG also likes to get more Ruby packages into Fedora. The following are open review requests for ruby packages.
 * Review Request: rubygem-rapt (dead review)
 * Review Request: rubygem-passenger

Members
If you are interested in joining the SIG, just add yourself to this list


 * 1)  David Lutterkort
 * 2)  Oliver Andrich
 * 3)  Akira TAGOH
 * 4)   Jeremy Hinegardner
 * 5)   Michael Stahnke
 * 6)   Conrad Meyer
 * 7)   Mike Danko
 * 8)  Jeroen van Meeuwen
 * 9)  Alejandro Perez Torres
 * 10)  Matthew Kent
 * 11)  Guillermo Gómez
 * 12)  Mamoru Tasaka
 * 13)  John Taber
 * 14)  Michal Fojtik
 * 15)  Nelio Junior
 * 16)  Jon Orris
 * 17)  Deshi Xiao
 * 18)  Daniel Bond
 * 19)  Vít Ondruch
 * 20)  Sergio Rubio
 * 21)  Sean OMeara
 * 22)  Lukáš Zapletal
 * 23)  Bohuslav Kabrda
 * 24)  Mo Morsi
 * 25)  Saleem Ansari
 * 26)  Jamie Nguyen
 * 27)  Samridh Srinath
 * 28)  Steve Linabery

Package Wishlist

 * Rbot - Ruby IRC Bot framework.
 * vpim - iCal/vcard support for Ruby, dependency of ical2rem
 * SiSU - Information structuring, publishing and search framework.