I looked at RVM a few weeks back while trying to set up a Rails app and was so frustrated I went outside and kicked a kitty.
I am glad to see a project that should restore some of my sanity. Good work.
I am glad to see a project that should restore some of my sanity. Good work.
http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book#se...
I kept getting issues with versions.
I should have specified that, I do not necessarily think it is a bad product, but it did frustrate me a lot when trying to set it up. I'm sure it has saved a lot of developers time, but I speak for myself and myself alone, and the cost-benefit for me was way off.
And if you bother to RTFM, is very easy to understand and employ every day, compared to other parts of the Ruby ecosystem who don't have a talented developer supporting the project and if you cannot understand the basics of RVM, I would be loathe to encourage you to explore those other parts of Ruby world that'll make you feel utterly incompetent.
For one gem dependencies can be handled through Bundles. If you mean version dependencies, I will give you that. But just because RVM's goal is great doesn't mean it's execution is flawless.
Also, I did RTFM. Do not make assumptions about why I failed to get it to work. There are a million variables when trying to get anything to work (OS, env variables, etc).
Lastly, I love feeling utterly incompetent, because it usually means I am learning a lot. Furthermore, what areas of the Ruby language are you talking about exactly?
It's plum easy and works out of the box. You're just looking for something to be angry about.
Managing multiple versions of Ruby and all the gems is very easy manually.
RVM is a buggy collection of extremely fragile and dangerous scripts.