A nice way to build apt repositories is to use fpm. https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm Although for just installing rails

A nice way to build apt repositories is to use fpm. https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm Although for just installing rails, using rubygems is the way to go, IMHO.