since it appears that i will be diving head-first into messing with
ruby in some current YP builds, is there any interest in creating a
meta-rubygems layer to start collecting recipes based on what konrad
weihmann has done in his meta-sca layer here?

https://github.com/priv-kweihmann/meta-sca

i've been swapping emails with konrad over the last few days and,
first, it seems clear that it's not appropriate to start dumping
general ruby recipes into meta-sca as that layer is clearly defined as
being for "static code analysis and security hardening", so a new,
more general layer is obviously more appropriate.

also, konrad focuses on using his own "rubygems.bbclass" class file:

https://github.com/priv-kweihmann/meta-sca/blob/master/classes/rubygems.bbclass

to define recipes that pull from rubygems.org exclusively, and he
agrees that it would keep things simpler to stick with that model;
hence, the proposal of the layer name "meta-rubygems" and not just
"meta-ruby".

konrad already offered to do the maintenance of such a new layer, as
long as there is standard infrastructure support for testing, that
sort of thing. and i'm sure that would make his meta-sca layer simpler
as all the more generic rubygems-based recipes could be moved into the
meta-rubygems layer, leaving his meta-sca layer to focus exclusively
on the code analysis and security recipes, however he wants to do
that.

thoughts? it seems that a new layer could be populated almost
instantly with a large chunk of meta-sca, and we could take it from
there.

rday