[bradleyland]

One of the challenges of running a production application based on Ruby is the fact that relying on distro packages will fail miserably. Rubygems, in particular, does not work well with distro installed Ruby interpreters.

[FireBringer]

I was talking about creating your own packages.

[bradleyland]

Ah, I re-read your comment in an entirely different light now, and I agree that packaging your own deps is a great way to avoid surprises when you roll your infrastructure.