Installing ruby on linux

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The following are the steps that I performed to install ruby on my linux machine. This same text is also available on http://linux-certification.blogspot.com/2008/10/setting-up-ruby-on-li… I went to Download Ruby There I found out a section with the heading Ruby Source Code I pick the url of the link for the file using the right click and choosing the 'copy link location' in my firefox. Then I went to the shell on my linux and put the following command

wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p72.tar.gz

This downloaded the ruby source code to my root directory. I extracted the file using the following command

tar -xvf ruby-1.8.7-p72.tar.gz

This command extracted the source archieve to ruby-1.8.7-p72 directory. Then I enter into this ruby-1.8.7-p72 directory and executed the following command

./configure

This is actually not a command rather a script, that is run to check the required configurations for the installation purposes. At the successful run of this script I executed the following command

make

This make command compiled the code. At the end of the make command I executed the following command

make install

This make install command installed the ruby and placed the ruby files in appropriate folders. Thats all to what I did for installing ruby on a linux machine. You can confirm your ruby installation by using the following command

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muasif80 wrote:

http://linux-certification.blogspot.com/2008/10/setting-up-ruby-on-li…

My newsreader does not break long addresses with ... , so something in this maze of servers did it. Consider a "tiny url" alternative there.

> tar -xvf ruby-1.8.7-p72.tar.gz This command extracted the source archieve to ruby-1.8.7-p72 directory.

To avoid this level of detail, I would link out to a reliable page that explains the common ways to build a GNU package.

> make install > ruby -v

Now you need rubygems, which is the only gem which you (naturally) must install by hand. However, the install procedure for a Ruby extension differs from the normal GNU in subtle ways, so you should cover this _in_ detail!

Next, I always like ruby-tk, for a super portable GUI toolkit, but you need to enable it back at ./configure

And why aren't you installing your Ruby from your Linux distro's packages, first. That is almost always the safest newb way.

And some Linuces put their user-space programs under /usr, and some under /usr/local. That requires the correct ./configure --prefix setting, and getting that wrong can lead to serious "gotchas".