I don't see any point in conversing any further since you are being intentionally obtuse. apt-get doesn't help me with different projects using different ruby interpreters and isolated gemsets(and it shouldn't); rvm does. I deploy multiple applications to the same production box, rvm solves multiple interpreters and gemsets, I use it. Your diatribe about package management and rvm is responding to imaginary arguments. Also, package management doesn't keep up with Ruby releases and I would rather install from rvm then packaging my own and having a separate apt server. And as pointed out many times, it's not just about the interpreters but isolating gems.
I don't work in a Ruby shop anymore, but I'd look at Bundler if I was looking to manage multiple gemsets on the same installation. As I point out in the above thread, maintaining multiple gemsets on the same machine is an antipattern that points to technical debt.
Ruby 1.8 is over. EOL. You need to port everything forward or suffer the consequences.
False dichotomy. There is no technical debt. Both Ruby 1.9.3 and Ruby 2 are functional and used in production. It will take some time to totally move to 2, and when that happens, there will be applications on different release versions of 2. I don't want to wait for os packaging to use a new ruby release, and I don't want to be forced by the packaging to use a particular version(older or newer).
> I don't work in a Ruby shop anymore, but I'd look at Bundler
Um. I use Bundler along with rvm.
> maintaining multiple gemsets on the same machine is an antipattern that points to technical debt.
Having a restriction of not more than one app on one machine is as stupid as it gets.
