installing ruby as a non-privileged user

rubyonrails-talk
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Dear list,

I need to install Ruby on Rails without administrative privileges. I figured I could install ruby and have 'make install' write its output to a defined folder, but this doesn't give me a working ruby. Help is welcome. Here's how I proceeded:

download and untar ruby-1.8.5-p2.tar.gz

./configure --prefix=/mypath/rubyonrails/ruby --exec-prefix=/mypath/rubyonrails/ruby/x86_64-linux

make

make install

PATH=$PATH:/mypath/rubyonrails/ruby: /mypath/rubyonrails/ruby/lib: /mypath/rubyonrails/ruby/lib/ruby: /mypath/rubyonrails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby: /mypath/rubyonrails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8: /mypath/rubyonrails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux: /mypath/rubyonrails/ruby/share: /mypath/rubyonrails/ruby/share/man: /mypath/rubyonrails/ruby/share/man/man1: /mypath/rubyonrails/ruby/x86_64-linux: /mypath/rubyonrails/ruby/x86_64-linux/bin: /mypath/rubyonrails/ruby/x86_64-linux/lib: /mypath/rubyonrails/ruby/x86_64-linux/lib/ruby: /mypath/rubyonrails/ruby/x86_64-linux/lib/ruby/1.8: /mypath/rubyonrails/ruby/x86_64-linux/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/

Still, when trying to install rubygems or even running "IRB", it won't find its .rb files (error message below):

/users/sista/bioiuser/rubyonrails/ruby/x86_64-linux/bin/irb:10:in `require': no such file to load -- irb (LoadError)         from /users/sista/bioiuser/rubyonrails/ruby/x86_64-linux/bin/ irb:10

Any pointers?

Thanks, Steven

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I've done this before, and my steps looked identical to yours except I did not include the --exec-prefix when executing configure. I did ./ configure --prefix=$HOME; make; make install. Hope that helps.

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i try to install ruby-1.8.6 in linux

cd /share/apps/ruby-1.8.6 ./configure --prefix=`pwd`;make;make install

i include /share/apps/ruby-1.8.6/bin in my $PATH

but when i invoke irb, i encountered error

/share/apps/ruby-1.8.6/bin/irb:10:in `require': no such file to load -- irb (LoadError)         from /share/apps/ruby-1.8.6/bin/irb:10

what might be wrong?

Eric.