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From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Subject: Re: Adding ruby-rails and ruby-sinatra.
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 09:12:01 -0400
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On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am quite happy to announce that we are almost on rails. There's a new
> branch 'wip-rails' on savannah with a new file 'gnu/packages/rails-wip.scm',
> which includes ~100 ruby packages towards rails and sinatra, both of which
> can be built and used, though I have not yet used them for anything
> significant.
>
> These packages are mostly in bad shape and not ready for master. I will
> slowly get them into shape and push them over, but in the meantime I thought
> that early adopters might have a use for them, find bugs or even help
> improve them.
>
> Hope this all helps someone out there.

Wow!  At work we're still on Rails 3 so I cannot give these packages a
real-world test since I assume they are for Rails 5, but this is very
exciting nonetheless.

Great work!

- Dave