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Date: 2008-10-24  |   Tags: notestoself

Installing ruby on Ubuntu

Used instructions at : http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RailsOnUbuntu 
$ sudo apt-get install ruby rdoc irb libyaml-ruby libzlib-ruby ri libopenssl-ruby ruby1.8-dev build-essential
$ wget "http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/43985/rubygems-1.3.0.tgz"
$ tar -xvzf rubygems-1.3.0.tgz
$ cd rubygems-1.3.0
$ sudo ruby setup.rb
$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem
$ sudo gem update --system

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