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dmcclean

11 Feb, 2011 03:38 PM

I need to have my ruby application run on both solaris and linux. I have installed
ruby on both platforms. My question is do I need to have two different gems
repositories, one on each platform, and install everything I need twice, or
can I share the respository?

Thanks in advance
Don

1. Support Staff 2 Posted by Luis Lavena on 11 Feb, 2011 03:45 PM

   

   If the gems are pure-ruby code, it can be shared, but that could be a
   problem due filesystem permissions and different userid's between OS.

   If the gems contain compiled code, then you can't run them across
   platforms because the compiled extension that the gem needs is
   compiled for the platform is running into.

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2. 3 Posted by dmcclean on 11 Feb, 2011 03:58 PM

   

   Luis,
   Thank you for the quick response!

   Regards,
   Don

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