Firstly, CentOS is super popular out there with the ruby guys and there are quite a few ruby based apps deployed on CentOS these days.
Secondly, every man - his dog - and kitchen sink seem to be building ruby rpms. Not apps or gems or anything, but Ruby itself. There must be over a dozen repos and over a few hundred private rpm builds floating around.
What needs to happen for these people to merge efforts ? CentOS is more than capable of hosting out-of-distro builds, either in Extras or CentOSPlus and there is plenty of precedence in the ecosystem to use namespace overloading to handle multiple build variants. Its not pretty, but it works. And using a sensible set of defaults also means that its mostly new-user friendly.
- KB
Tbh it's not actually Ruby itself that we need so badly, it's packaged (and mantained) RoR & (lots of!) gems. 
Nux,
Hi, Karanbir! How you think about RubyEE (http://www.rubyenterpriseedition.com/)?
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