FWIW, FPM can turn pip and gem packages into debs, so if it's a really
critical dependency, it might be possible to create the native package and
then ask nicely to have it hosted on packages.ros.org.

https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm


On 9 October 2014 12:50, Tully Foote <tfoote@osrfoundation.org> wrote:

> Yes it does have gem support and can be used in a source workspace. But a
> package cannot be released with a non native package dependency.
>
> Tully
> On Oct 9, 2014 8:47 AM, "Jonathan Bohren" <jonathan.bohren@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Does rosdep currently have support for installing ruby packages via gem?
>>
>> -j
>>
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