Hi,

The ruby team is currently working on two new eclasses to better handle
our ruby packages. This first one is intended to be a replacement for
the current ruby.eclass. A second eclass is forthcoming and will provide
support for handling gems.

This new eclass has much better handling of multiple ruby target
implementations, fixing https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167029
and provides a better framework to include more functionality later.

We intend to move this eclass to the main tree and gradually move over
the packages currently using ruby.eclass. ruby.eclass will be deprecated
over time but we don't have a specific timeline for that yet.

There is a testbed with ebuilds here:
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/ruby-scripts.git;a=tree;f=ruby-ng-testbed;hb=HEAD

The eclass itself is attached to this message and here:
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/ruby-scripts.git;a=blob;f=ruby-ng-testbed/eclass/ruby-ng.eclass;h=ce9a37440600c7913a21b5780a18b5e8dd9d712f;hb=HEAD

Kind regards,

Hans