On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:56:45 +0000, Kosmas Chatzimichalis wrote:

Michael,

Here's the second attempt about requirement for the server following the
initial one some time ago.

Not sure if we should be looking at the Mandriva Cooker rpms or other
specific version.
The ones below are from the Cooker distribution, but if I should be looking
at a different one let me know:

Well, for ruby, the issue is that we are using puppet on server, and so updating to cooker
rpms is IMHO risky. I would prefer to keep it with supported and tested version ( as puppet
is using rails for active record, for reporting and this is used for deploying postgresql db ).
So I can try, but this will requires more testing ( as I need to check that everything still work
fine on puppet side ).

  - ruby-1.8.7.p330-1mdv2011.0.i586.rpm (main)

  - ruby-RubyGems-1.3.7-1mdv2011.0.noarch.rpm (main)
  - rails-2.3.10-1mdv2011.0.noarch.rpm (contrib)  - altough there is a
  security upgrade to 2.3.11 (
  http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/2/8/new-releases-2-3-11-and-3-0-4)
  - Database to be used either MySQL or PostgreSQL

I believe that there are benefits for using version 3, so I would like to
investigate if it's possible to build a package for it.

Well, how hard is this to update later the project to rails 3 ?
I mean, the first version is quite simple, so what about doing the first in rails 2.X
with fewer features, and later do it in rails 3 with more features ( and likely better architectures, as we
often gain insight of the application once we dvelop the first version and get the first feedback )

Maybe this was badly specified, or I badly explained, but a simple CRUd will be enough, do not really
add too much feature for the first version.

If you know who is current maintainer for it, I can get in touch and see if
I can help with that.

Shikamaru, ( shikamaru@mandriva )