Hey archers, i am not sure if this topic belongs to aur-devel or arch-general so i will post it here, because i think the aur-devel readers will read this list too. I think rubygems is very nice. It makes it pretty easy to manage your gems and it doesnt conflict with the "Arch way" as long as you install your gems in your $HOME. But many users want system wide available gems. Hmm, no problem with the --no-user-install switch, pretty KISS. But it violates the "Arch way" at the point, that we want to use pacman to install software, because we know and trust pacman and we dont want to use random software to install/remove files at critical locations of our systems. There are some solutions. Many people uploaded ruby-* PKGBUILDs to the AUR. Great Idea. But they are constantly out of date, because it requires some work to keep on track with rubygems.org (I am not sure if this is a correct english sentence, but i think you will get it.). So somebody wrote pacgem, wich is a ok idea, but its a little bit outdated too. I think the AUR solution is better, but we have to solve the problem with the outdated PKGBUILDs. My suggestions I wrote a simple python script that creates PKGBUILDs from the rubygems.org API. I wrote it just to figure out if this works, so its pretty straight forward and i dont want to publish it it yet. It worked quite nice - it can resolve dependencies and stuff like that - but there is one problem at the moment. The API does not provide any checksums for the gems, but i opened an feature request [0]. With this script i could imagine two things. Setting up a virtual AUR user, who handles all ruby-* packages. Then we create a rubygems account for this user, so we can create a custom rubygems feed for this user, with the gems we have in the AUR. Once a day a script checks the feed for updated gems and creates new PKGBUILDs, if needed. Pretty awesome! If it is possible to integrate this into the AUR, this would be my favorite solution. But i could imagine, that some of you will yell: 'This not what we consider KISS!' The second solution is to provide my own litte archgems website, that does exactly the same. But having this stuff at a single place (AUR) would be really cool. Let me know, what you are thinking. Cheers, ushi [0] https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/issues/427