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macek
Asked: 2010-10-30 12:45:56 +0800 CST

How to setup Ruby and RubyGems on CentOS?

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I have a CentOS 5.5 (64-bit server)

I'd like to install Ruby 1.8.7 (current patch level) and RubyGems

What's the best way to go about this?

disclaimer: I'm a CentOS noob

centos ruby rubygems

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can install it with default yum install -y ruby ruby-devel rubygems

    Other way is to compile it by yourself

    Ruby

    wget http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p302.tar.gz
tar -zxvf ruby-1.8.7-p302.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.8.7-p302
./configure --with-openssl-dir=/usr/lib/openssl
make
make install

    Rubygems

    wget http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.3.7.tgz
tar -zxvf rubygems-1.3.7.tgz
cd rubygems-1.3.7
ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
ruby setup.rb install

    Check if installed

    ruby -v
gem -v
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  2. In what capacity are you trying to use Ruby? If you don't need it systemwide, Have you considered using RVM locally so you can install ruby into your local directory? Additionally you can install rvm systemwide. It takes some doing, but it's a better solution that tossing files across your server.

    Installing RVM

    I'd test it out first in your local directory until you get comfortable with it.

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