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diff --git a/_posts/2012-06-21-new-for-developers-bundler-support.markdown b/_posts/2012-06-21-new-for-developers-bundler-support.markdown index 50b75f950..714f3f4a8 100644 --- a/_posts/2012-06-21-new-for-developers-bundler-support.markdown +++ b/_posts/2012-06-21-new-for-developers-bundler-support.markdown @@ -1,30 +1,5 @@ --- -author: Seb -comments: true date: 2012-06-21 06:52:08+00:00 -layout: post slug: new-for-developers-bundler-support -title: 'New for developers: bundler support' -wordpress_id: 373 +redirect_to: https://www.mysociety.org/2012/06/21/new-for-developers-bundler-support/ --- - -Thanks to lots of hard work from [@mckinneyjames](https://twitter.com/#!/mckinneyjames), Alaveteli now uses [Bundler](http://gembundler.com/) wherever possible to satisfy its dependencies. - -We have a few such dependencies, like `recaptcha` and `rmagick`. Previously we installed these from system packages on Debian. The advantages of using Bundler are: - - - - - * We can upgrade to newer versions more quickly than Debian packages allow - - - * It's the standard way of packaging software in Rails 3, to which we will migrate in due course (in fact, we will probably skip straight to Rails 4...) - - - * It brings the process of getting a working setup in OS X closer to that of building the same thing on a Linux-based system - - - -It's not utopia -- the first run of "bundle install" on a new system will take a very long time, because Xapian has to be compiled from scratch; and we can't remove our non-rubygems dependencies like gnuplot and memcached. However, as part of the slow process of moving to a modern Rails setup, this is a major step forward. - - |