November 2009
4 posts
Installing Ruby on Ubuntu
Ubuntu seperates many standard ruby components. The following console command installs many of the necessary ones for Ruby 1.8:
sudo apt-get install ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev libruby1.8 irb1.8 rdoc1.8 ri1.8 rubygems1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8
Afterwards update ruby gems:
sudo gem update —system
That’s it!
Installing Ruby on Mac OS X
The good news is you probably don’t have to. The following releases of Mac OS X already have ruby:
Leopard ships with ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287)
Snow Leopard ships with ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72)
Great! Don’t forget to update ruby gems:
sudo gem update —system
Assuming that you already have Ruby 1.8, the easiest way to install Ruby 1.9 and manage your...
Installing Ruby on Windows
There are two compilers that allow you to build Ruby for Windows:
MinGW which uses Native Windows libraries
Cygwin which replicates a POSIX (Unix) environment
In this tutorial we are going to use RubyInstaller, which is the quickest way to install MinGW-compiled Ruby. We’ll install Ruby 1.8
Download and run RubyInstaller 1.8.6 Patch 383 from their RubyForge Files page. The latest version...
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Phillip Longman describes his concerns with proprietary health IT systems in this article for Washington Monthly.
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