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To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
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Good stuff.

Tox is actually similar to what rvm+bundler offers (with Travis for
CI) in the Ruby world.

Here, we have gotten rid of rvm/rbenv and bundler. I certainly hope to
use Guix + Travis soon for CI - it is useful for development because
of fast turnaround (unlike the Guix CI).

Pj.

On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 06:54:51PM -0400, Thompson, David wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 08/31/2015 12:06 AM, David Thompson wrote:
> >> Hey fellow Guix hackers,
> >>
> >> I just published a blog post about Guix targetting Ruby programmers,
> >> detailing the ways in which Guix can replace the not-so-good RVM and
> >> Bundler tools.  I know there's a few Rubyists lurking in here, so,
> >> enjoy!
> >>
> >> http://dthompson.us/ruby-on-guix.html
> >>
> >
> > This is really nice. I did something similar in Python, replacing
> > virtualenv with Guix. People also use tox quite a lot these days, so I
> > wrote https://git.framasoft.org/Steap/guix-tox :) Is there anything like
> > tox in Ruby?
> 
> I haven't used tox, but after reading the text in the above web page I
> can't think of anything like it.
> 
> - Dave
> 

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