I'm very late to this party. (not sure if this is still a hot issue) Just thought I'd mention, that there seems to be some work in this area. gem2deb - a gem

I'm very late to this party. (not sure if this is still a hot issue) Just thought I'd mention, that there seems to be some work in this area. gem2deb - a gem to a *.deb (Debian/Ubuntu) package http://github.com/thwarted/gem2deb/tree/master http://github.com/thwarted/gem2deb/tree/master (and for rpm's) http://rubyforge.org/projects/gem2rpm/ http://rubyforge.org/projects/gem2rpm/ a repo for rhel/deb/others http://rubyworks.rubyforge.org/ http://rubyworks.rubyforge.org/ I'm sure there are others,...