[Bug 237833] lang/ruby26: irb, rdoc, ri is broken

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237833

Sean Champ <lab+bsd@thinkum.space> changed:

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--- Comment #23 from Sean Champ <lab+bsd@thinkum.space> ---
I've seen similar errors, I believe it may have something to do with how the
Gem API resolves gemspec pathnames

I think a lot of the issues might clear up with a newer ruby-gems version. I've
sent a patch for this
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=260780 

For bundling with tools like irb, rdoc, etc. it should be possible to provide a
meta-port. I'll hopefully have a patch put together for that, if it could be of
any use - something that could depend on the Ruby implementation of a given
default version and the ports that would provide the common Ruby platform tools
- e.g including the tools for the bundler, erb, irb, racc, rake, rbs, rdoc, and
typeprof cmds, all of which are available via separate gems.

I'm not sure if it might seem initially very convenient, but after trying out
some other approaches for installing a usable 'irb' locally, I believe it may
work out well to use the individual ports e.g for irb, rdoc, etc. Those ports
may be available at their latest public release, contrasted to whatever version
was included in the Ruby platform bundle of some version. 

Considering the essential features of the ruby-gems port, in particular, the
latest updates may provide some useful features e.g in affecting how the tools
are launched from the console command line. Ideally, some bugs might go away
after update, as such.

For the sake of convenience for a new Ruby installation with FreeBSD, it should
be possible to put together a meta-port that would draw all of these separate
Ruby ports together. I don't believe I've found the only approach for this, but
I've been working on a new port for that - calling it lang/ruby-platform.
Perhaps it's been tested enough that I could send a diff, for public review
shortly, ostensibly for adding it to the ports tree or at least as a point of
discussion.

The meta-port might depend on the ports providing the erb, irb, racc, rake,
rbs, rdoc, and typeprof cmds such that might normally be available if
everything works out in a new Ruby installation. To provide a single point for
installation, those could be installed as dependencies of the metaport, at
their latest published version in ports. Of course, this would also pull in any
updates for the ruby-gems port.

Then there are the bundled gems in a baseline Ruby install, such that don't
have command line tools - e.g the rss gem, such that might be of interest for
podcast stuff etc.

Hopefully the ruby-gems update and the metaport might be of some use. I'll try
to put the metaport patch together, for one approach to this.

Health, all
- Sean

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