[PLUG] RH8 Ruby

Bill Spears bspears at easystreet.com
Tue Dec 10 15:38:25 UTC 2002


On Tuesday 10 December 2002 04:25 pm, you wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Bill Spears wrote:
> > Anybody playing/using Ruby?
>
> I do a lot of programming in Ruby - it's currently my favorite language.
>
> > Here's my situation. On one 'puter I built Ruby and a program called irb
> > works fine.
> >
> > On other 'puter, I installed rpms and irb.rb is there but doesn't run. 
> > Says IRB is not initialized. At this point I don't know what that is.
> > Anyone know?
>
> Hmmm....  What version of Ruby does the rpm install? ( ruby -v will tell
> you).  Where'd you get the rpm?

I got a bunch of related ruby rpms at rpmfind.net.
>
> Generally, I prefer to build Ruby from source (actually, I prefer to
> build most things from source anymore).  I'd recommend going to:
> http://www.ruby-lang.org and downloading the 1.6.7 source and compiling it
> (./configure, make, make install).  

I just did that and irb works fine now. I'm becoming a convert to building, 
although as I watch the messages fly by, I think I have no idea what I'm 
doing.

Thanks.




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