[needs-packaging] Rubyripper

I'll second this; all its dependencies are already in the repositories. It has both a CLI and a GUI, and it's significantly better than the other various and sundry rippers that Ubuntu currently has.

It would be very nice indeed to have Rubyripper in the repositories. The Windows equivalent, EAC (Exact Audio Copy), is very popular, and it seems tha for many it's one of the few programs keeping them booting to Windows. It's important to notice the difference between these tools and other rippers. Rubyripper and EAC aim to do an exact bit by bit copy of the CD to be ripped, and they have refined mechanisms that other rippers lack to make this happen.

This is the one package I still have to build from source. I would love to see it in the universe repository.

someone uploaded a package to getdeb: http://www.getdeb.net/app/Rubyripper
you should check it out, though inclusion in the repositories would indeed be nice

Soundjuicer is not even close in the method rubyripper uses. Its a must and please add it in repos. Since its already packaged, get it from good getdeb guys or from debian multimedia repo. Check it and put it inside karimic repo please. Thank you.

A package is available from my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~aheck/+archive/ppa

I will try to get it through REVU after Karmic is released.

It's good to see that Rubyripper is finally making its way into Ubuntu. This app is really a gem. And thank you, Andreas, for taking care of the packaging. Do you have any plans yet for an amd64 build?

Thanks Andreas indeed! I have also moved into a 64-bit environment in the meanwhile, so I have my thumbs up for a 64-bit version too :-)

There is no need for a 64-bit build since the packages rubyripper and rubyripper-gtk are not platform-specific (their platform identifier is 'all'). It seems to be the normal behaviour of launchpad when you build platform neutral packages to show them as part of the i386 build.

So you can just try them out :)

Thanks! Do you also have plans to make a package for Jaunty available :-)?

Andreas, thanks for pointing out that i386 means "amd64 too" in this case. Ruby being an interpreted language, that's only natural, it's just that the name is a tiny bit irritating. Anyway, rubyripper and rubyripper-gtk both installed fine on my Karmic Alpha 5 amd64 machine. Thanks again!

Ernst: I put a jaunty build up. Hope it works for you.

Rubyripper is up in REVU, now.

Please add rubyripper on official repo

Please add this wonderful tool in the official repository.

Andreas

I think the version you have in your PPA was compiled without the GUI interface. For GUI apparently you need to configure as:

./configure --enable-lang-all --enable-gtk2 --enable-cli

and also add some more dependencies, as listed at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=799621

cheers
Oliver

@Oliver Story: Yes I build it without the GUI but this is only because I build two binary packages from my source package. One of them contains the basic command-line version of rubyripper and the other contains the GUI. This way the user can choose which version he wants to install.

I tried to get this into the repository for Lucid through REVU but although there were some MOTUs who gave me very good feedback they disappeared just short before I fixed all the problems they had found and I didn't make the deadline. If there is a MOTU reading this and wants to support me I will be very eager to prepare this package for Maverick on REVU when the repository opens again.

Best regards,

Andreas

@Andres I installed your PPA package and only see rrip_cli. Where would the other package/binary be ?

Did you install the rubyripper-gui package, too? Looks like you only installed rubyripper. Rubyripper is split into a CLI package and a gui package which can be installed in addition to the CLI package.

It' s actually rubyripper-gtk. Very nicely done for the separation of CLI vs GUI. I wish this had been mentioned above :)

Why does this have " secure CD" in the description anyway ? I think it' s meant to be " An accurate CD ripping..." The description is rather redundant and " accurate" would be subjective at best.

From http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Rubyripper, I propose we adapt the description to be changed to:
Rubyripper is a graphical digital audio extraction tool that uses different error correcting methods and algorithms from cdparanoia to make sure that a CD rip is done successfully and accurately.

Is this only afrontend to cdparanoia ? Maybe someone else can check my proposed description so it' s more accurate yet human-readable.

Any hope of an updated (0.6.0) package available for Maverick, in the ppa or otherwise?

Reed, you may want to try the rubyripper packages from debian-multimedia.org:

http://debian-multimedia.org/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/package/rubyripper.php
http://debian-multimedia.org/dists/unstable/main/binary-amd64/package/rubyripper.php

Unfortunatley the GUI continues to be practically unusable with Ruby 1.8, due to this bug:

http://code.google.com/p/rubyripper/issues/detail?id=348&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Summary%20Stars%20Opened%20Modified

I tried a local install of Ruby 1.9 with gtk2 bindings, which was a rather complicated affair and didn't resolve the problem in the end. All in all RubyRipper is in a sorry state at the moment, and one can only hope for the better. In the meantime I've returned to EAC, which runs very well with Wine, for the very few audio CDs that still happen to come along my way.

Reviewing needs-packaging bug reports I have concluded that this bug is likely a duplicate of bug 598281. It'd be great if you could help consolidate these bug reports by performing the following actions. Examine both bug reports to determine if they are actually duplicates. Then determine which is more complete - a more complete bug report will have a status of Confirmed, Triaged or In Progress, may be assigned to someone or may possess a bug watch. After determining which is more complete please make the other bug report a duplicate of the complete one by clicking 'Mark as duplicate' on the right hand side of the bug page. Thanks for helping out!

RussianNeuroMancer, I beg to differ. GetDeb offering a RubyRipper package does not fix this. GetDeb is in no way affiliated with Ubuntu, its maintenance and release record has always been erratic, to put it politely, and its repositories have been down for days or weeks in the past due to technical issues and/or lack of infrastructure funding. It's a well-intended effort, but can't be relied on.

The only real fix would be to have RubyRipper included in one the official Ubuntu repositories. I don't know why Andreas Heck's efforts have failed to achieve this. He sure did his part, and his excellent idea of splitting RubyRipper into CLI and GUI packages certainly shows that he's a competent guy.

This bug is not closed, it still lists the affected packages. The task is merely closed on the getdeb portion of the report. Since it's on getdeb.net it should be marked as fixed released.

Trying to understand the status and what to do.
Is Andreas still working on it? I used his last version on lucid.
Can the lucid version (Assume that is what is at https://launchpad.net/~aheck/+archive/ppa) be used on Maverick?

Thanks.

Unfortunately, Andreas' repository doesn't support Maverick. You can get rubyripper from the GetDeb repository (http://www.getdeb.net/updates/Ubuntu/10.10/#how_to_install). From there just do the normal sudo apt-get install rubyripper. It's too bad that the bug mentioned in Sebastian's comment (#22) plagues this version.

Seems that the other Launchpad repo is keeping pretty darn current while the other one hasn't been updated in years:
ppa:brandonsnider/ruby-ripper
That being said, it sure would be nice to have a normal package.