Re: Rails

[Ben Woodcroft]

On 12/07/17 18:47, ng0 wrote:
> Pjotr Prins transcribed 0.4K bytes:
> > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 08:03:48AM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> > > While I was working on it (or occasionally do) I wonder why we have so
> > > little rails packages? What happened there?
> > Ruby support is great in Guix. But we don't use Rails much, yet. Dave
> > started packaging some time back, but not sure what happened. We also
> > need it for Arvados - Fred is working on that.
> >
> > Pj.
> Ah! Good to know. I have some packages in a dirty branch, I just need to
> figure out the right order. at the moment it's just one file and the top
> view are about 40 rails packages I guess.
There is actually a branch wip-rails on savannah that boots rails. It is 
somewhat dated, and needs some overall work (removal of unused packages, 
to start). Help is welcome - I won't be able to get to this for a few 
months at least.

Many of the packages you list ng0 are in that branch, or already in Guix.

ben