[jweir]

fast installs will be great. compiling ruby is the only slow part left in our provisioning process.

[gtirloni]

why are you compiling ruby during provisioning?

[inopinatus]

to this end I have been deploying with the fullstaq-ruby builds for some years now.

[jweir]

we have investigate that, but it requires sudo access which is not allowed but the running user.

[inopinatus]

You may find the fakeroot utility goes a long way to help. But never forget that binary packages are merely archives, or sometimes, archives-of-archives (as in Debian); we can unroll them anywhere.