%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy: pierre $ $Date: 2015-02-23 16:51:12 -0500 (Mon, 23 Feb 2015) $ Ruby The Ruby package contains the Ruby development environment. This is useful for object-oriented scripting. &lfs77_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &ruby-md5sum; Download size: &ruby-size; Estimated disk space required: &ruby-buildsize; Estimated build time: &ruby-time; Ruby Dependencies Optional , , , , , and libyaml User Notes: Install Ruby by running the following command: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --enable-shared \ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/ruby-&ruby-version; Optionally, build the CAPI documents by running the following commands: cp -v template/Doxyfile.tmpl Doxyfile && doxygen Compile and link Ruby by running the following command: 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. --disable-install-doc: This switch disables building and installing rdoc indexes and C API documents. --disable-install-rdoc: This switch disables building and installing rdoc indexes. --disable-install-capi: This switch disables building and installing C API documents. Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories erb, gem, irb, rake, rdoc, ri, and ruby libruby.so and libruby-static.a /usr/include/ruby-&ruby-version; /usr/lib/ruby, /usr/share/doc/ruby-&ruby-version; and /usr/share/ri Short Descriptions ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. ruby irb is the interactive interface for Ruby. irb erb is Tiny eRuby. It interprets a Ruby code embedded text file. erb ri displays documentation from a database on Ruby classes, modules, and methods. ri libruby.so contains the API functions required by Ruby. libruby.so