Ruby-1.8.1

Introduction to Ruby

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

Package information

Installation of Ruby

Install Ruby by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

Contents

The Ruby package contains ruby, irb, erb, rdoc, ri and testrb.

Description

ruby

ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming.

irb

irb is the interactive interface for ruby.