[sjtgraham]

PSA: Do not use system Ruby - http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/54109839209/psa-do-not-use...

[alrs]

Correct.

Don't use rvm or rbenv on your production Linux boxes. Use packaged Ruby there.

[enko]

Er, why not? rvm was originally made for production use!

I've used rvm in production for major sites for years with no problems whatsoever, in fact I believe it is best practise. Do you have any reasons for your preference for packaged ruby?

[regularfry]

Best practice says production boxes shouldn't have compilers installed.

[judofyr]

Install compilers on one machine, build Ruby, package it up as a deb/rpm/whatever, distribute to other machines.

[regularfry]

Yep, that's the idea.

[enko]

Sounds like an awful lot of work for no good reason I can think of.

You'll need a compiler, anyway, once you start trying to use any number of libraries requiring compiled C extensions.

"No compilers on production!" might be true elsewhere but I can't see any reason it applies for ruby deployments.

[sergiotapia]

I'll give this a read, thanks for sharing.