Debian and the Outdated Ruby Gems
23. March 2012
Debian is in my personal opinion the best Linux server distribution ever! I’ve never used something else. But one big drawback is that a lot of stuff is really outdated: With PHP you have to use backports. Java and Maven brings some hassle, too. And now I realized the same problem with Ruby Gems. But there is a solution as described here (german blog post).
By default Debian disables the gem update --system to prevent circumventing the Debian packet management system.…
