Ruby-2.1.2

Introduction to Ruby

The Ruby package contains the Ruby development environment. This is useful for object-oriented scripting.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

Install Ruby by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr   \
            --enable-shared \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/ruby-2.1.2 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make test.

Now, as the root user:

make install

--enable-shared: This switch enables building of the libruby shared library.

Installed Programs: erb, gem, irb, rake, rdoc, ri, ruby, and testrb

Installed Libraries: libruby.so, libruby-static.a, and numerous modules located in the /usr/lib/ruby hierarchy.

Installed Directories: /usr/include/ruby-2.1.0, /usr/lib/ruby, /usr/share/doc/ruby-2.1.2 and /usr/share/ri

ruby	is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming.
irb	is the interactive interface for Ruby.
erb	is Tiny eRuby. It interprets a Ruby code embedded text file.
ri	displays documentation from a database on Ruby classes, modules, and methods.
`libruby.so`	contains the API functions required by Ruby.

Last updated on 2014-09-14 12:09:32 -0700