Ruby 2.2.0 installation on Ubuntu server (15.04) in custom location.

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Hello.

I installed ruby 2.2.0 from source code on Ubuntu server 15.04 in “/home/padmahas/ruby/”. It created 4 directories “bin”, “include”, “lib” and “share”. But when I give the command “``ruby -version”, it says “the program ruby is currently not installed. You can install it by typing sudo apt-get install ruby”.

So I cd to /home/padmahas/ruby/bin and executed the same command but surprisingly Ubuntu gave same error again. I also ensured that the current directory (bin) contains the program ruby in it by executing “ls” command. The directory contains several files such as, “erb”, “gem”, “irb”, “rake”, “rdoc”, “ri” and “ruby”.

Is it mandatory that I should set environment variable for ruby? If yes, why its not executing even from the bin directory?

I appreciate any suggestion or clue.

Thank you.

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To run a program from the current directory you have to use ./ruby otherwise it looks in the path first, I think. So the best thing is to that folder to the path. However I strongly recommend using rvm (or rbenv), rather than installing from source yourself. It is much easier and you can install ruby and rails in a single command, plus have access to different versions on the same machine very easily.

Colin

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Sorry, missed a word out that made part of my reply meaningless. The offending sentence should have read "So the best thing is to *add* that folder to the path". My suggestion to use rvm instead still stands however.

Colin