Bug 261141 – dev-ruby/mysql-ruby does not register itself as an installed ruby gem

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description skolima 2009-03-04 10:23:52 UTC]

There's dev-ruby/mysql-ruby in portage, but Redmine recomends installing ruby gem mysql for improved performance. Could someone package it?

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Alex Legler (RETIRED) 2009-03-04 10:39:17 UTC]

dev-ruby/mysql-ruby *is* the mysql gem code, just installed as a normal library.
Should give you the same performance.

[Comment 2 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2009-03-04 10:41:13 UTC]

Please see http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2008/12/12/id-rather-keep-myself-away-from-gems on why we prefer not using gems for packages if you're really interested.

[Comment 3 skolima 2009-03-04 10:48:06 UTC]

It is not listed in
'gem list'
as other portage-installed gems do (e.g actionmailer).

[Comment 4 Hans de Graaff 2009-03-04 17:07:40 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> It is not listed in
> 'gem list'
> as other portage-installed gems do (e.g actionmailer).

That is correct since the gem as such is not installed. This is normally not a problem since the code is the same and e.g. activerecord uses it as is.

Is this a problem for you? If so, it would be helpful to know the specific package that complains about this and the error it is giving.

[Comment 5 skolima 2009-03-05 08:08:56 UTC]

It's just confusing, as most (all?) other 'gems' get listed. It's probably ok to close this bug as INVALID.

[Comment 6 Robin Johnson 2009-03-05 08:17:17 UTC]

The only place it will pose problems later is anything that calls Rails::GemDependency (often seen as config.gem in Rails) directly because it tries to scan the gemspecs before loading.

We need to make the packages we install from tarballs install gemspec files, easy solution :-)

[Comment 7 Alex Legler (RETIRED) 2009-12-15 09:45:13 UTC]

mysql-ruby-2.8.1-r1 now installs a gemspec.