Build with "travelling ruby"
koenpunt opened this issue · comments
To completely omit the Ruby requirement, it might be worth investigating if it's possible to ship it with a bundled ruby by means of Phusion's travelling ruby: https://github.com/phusion/traveling-ruby
We actually looked into this, and there were some reasons why we didn't go ahead with it. I can't remember, maybe @ohwutup does? 👍
I don't remember exactly the reasons for not going with that solution, but IIRC, I think they weren't going to be maintaining it for very long and it was a much more complicated solution to building a packaged up ruby environment. That being said, I would be curious what advantage it would have over our current approach. @koenpunt, IIRC traveling ruby does something similar to what we are doing no?
Right, it uses hosted Ruby zip files that we couldn't build ourselves in the future when something breaks.
Going to close this for now, happy to keep conversation going though @koenpunt !