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I was wondering:

In python, canon says to use buildout or virtualenv, to avoid installing into the system packages. It's second nature now, I no longer see anything ludicrously bizarre to the practice. It makes a kind of sense.

In Ruby, is there something similar? How does ruby deal with this problem? Does ruby have this problem?

nouh
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chiggsy
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    Possible duplicate of [ruby equivalent of virtualenv](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/486995/ruby-equivalent-of-virtualenv) – kojiro Mar 30 '12 at 03:11

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There are several projects trying to handle this issue:

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  • Unfortunately this answer only covers one aspect of zc.buildout, which is the encapsulation of the environment. But zc.buildout is also about deployment/configuration of an application in a deterministic way, which these tools don't seem to provide. – romanofski Aug 02 '13 at 01:43