3pt14159 said that he used to use distro-packaged Ruby, but stopped because his distro used a compile-time option that didn't play well with his vendor's hardware.
3pt14159's solution was to start using rvm on production boxes.
I think that is a bad idea, and that either:
1. 3pt14159 should just pull down the package source, change the compile time option, rebuild the package, and use the mildly customized package in production.
2. 3pt14159 should not waste time working around hardware weirdness, and just switch to a vendor that doesn't have these problems.
