More problems than I care to think about

[Paul Schmehl]

I've been trying to port Snorby to FreeBSD.  Emphasis on trying.  I run 
into problems at every turn, and some seem unresolvable.  Snorby requires 
ruby 1.9.2 or better.  The default version on FreeBSD is 1.8.  Putting 
RUBY_DEFAULT_VER=1.9 in /etc/make.conf breaks some of the rubygem ports 
that will only build on 1.8.

sysutils/rubygem-bundler was giving me fits.  I discovered that while the 
port version is 1.1.5, the current version, which fixes the problems I was 
having, is 1.2.2.  I created a port update for that and was going to submit 
it, but then I discovered devel/rubygem-eventmachine "blows up" with a core 
dump if built with 1.9.

This is beyond discouraging and has caused me to abandon the project 
entirely.

It seems that we need a massive effort to update ruby and rails and all 
gems to the latest versions.  Who is responsible for that?  How can we get 
that done?

-- 
Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions
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