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		moe on Aug 11, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rbenv, an unobtrusive rvm replacement Your arguments sound nice in theory. Yet I don't know a single ruby shop who runs with a distro-packaged ruby, even though REE is available as a .deb.

nona on Aug 12, 2011 | [–]

We do - nothing wrong with Debian stable's 1.8.7 and/or 1.9.2.

alrs on Aug 12, 2011 | | [–]

I do this for a living, and I've used Debian-packaged Ruby wherever I've gone. I haven't experienced issues.

bonzoesc on Aug 11, 2011 | | [–]

I use the Phusion-provided .debs for REE on Ubuntu.

regularfry on Aug 12, 2011 | [–]

Count us in. We only use packaged ruby, be that MRI or JRuby.

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