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.

Package Information

Ruby Dependencies

Optional

Berkeley DB-6.1.19, Doxygen-1.8.8, Graphviz-2.38.0, libyaml, OpenSSL-1.0.1i, and Tk-8.6.2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/ruby

Installation of Ruby

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

Command Explanations

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

Contents

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

Short Descriptions

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