"Using Ruby in Fedora" section

[bkabrda]

Hi, as I wrote to the fedora ruby-sig mailing list [1], I would like to propose adding a section about using Ruby in Fedora. I'd like to use this bug as a kind of brainstorming place. It might be a good idea to talk about how the section should look like, before actually starting implementing anything :)

So here is my proposal: Add a section "Using Ruby in Fedora"/"Articles"/"Tutorials"/??? (not sure which name to choose). This section would contain (not surprisingly) documentation on how the stuff actually works, some tutorials, howtos etc - maybe it would be worth it to divide it into more sections. Also, it might be nice to use some kind of simple CMS to write the entries etc.

Please share your thoughts/opinions. I'll be happy to contribute, but first I'd like us to agree on what we want. Thanks.

[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ruby-sig/2012-August/001093.html

[movitto]

Ya think this is a good idea. Perhaps a guide on how to setup a new rails application using the platform yum installed from Fedora. Also maybe a guide on how a developer can update their application to comply w/ the latest supported stack. We can reference / link to external community sources like rails update guides and upstream CVE's that have been fixed in the fedora packages.

Some editable content could work for this, would be interested in what you were thinking for that though, as CMS's can get complicated real quick (plus there are already some rails based cms's). Not against the idea, just want to make sure everything fits together on the site (there are a few plugins to integrate cms functionality into an existing rails application, perhaps we can leverage those)

Everything sounds good, looking forward to all of this!

[movitto]

If we really wanted to get fancy, we could record some screencasts and put them on youtube / embed them in the site (and maybe even submit them to railscasts!). Though I have made screencasts b4 and they do take a while to do (plan, shoot, edit, upload, etc) so might make sense to focus on other things for the time being.

[bkabrda]

Screencasts sound cool, but as you say, it's probably a good idea to postpone them to future :) To clarify myself a little bit, we don't really need some kind of powerful CMS, I meant something simple. Basically create the main "Using Ruby in Fedora" section, then add some subsections (Documentation, Tutorials, ...) and have a simple way to write articles with some kind of formatting options. Nothing fancy, just the basic functionality, so I could just open browser, write a nicely formatted article/tutorial, save it - and there it goes. Does this sound sane?

[movitto]

Sounds good to me

[bkabrda]

Ok, so I'll wait for some time if anyone has something to propose/enhance about this and then I'll start implementing the stuff. (Don't know when I'll get some time, but possibly in three weeks or so). Thanks for the suggestions, any further comments are always welcome :)

[strzibny]

I think it might be sane to have here "Deploy Ruby on Fedora" guides.