%general-entities; ]> $Date$ Ruby The Ruby package contains the Ruby development environment. This is useful for object-oriented scripting. &lfs101_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 DTrace User Notes: Install Ruby by running the following command: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --enable-shared \ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/ruby-&ruby-version; && make Optionally, build the CAPI documents by running the following commands: make capi To test the results, issue: make check. There are almost 21,000 tests. Some tests related to ipv6 may indicate errors. If the tests are run in a directory that has a world writable component (e.g. /tmp) then several additional tests may fail. A few tests my fail due to system configuration expectations. 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 bundle, bundler, erb, gem, irb, racc, rake, rbs, rdoc, ri, ruby, and typeprof libruby.so /usr/include/ruby-&ruby-minor-version;.0 /usr/lib/ruby, /usr/share/doc/ruby-&ruby-version; and /usr/share/ri Short Descriptions bundle creates bundles of Ruby Gems bundle bundler manages an application's dependencies throughout it's lifecycle bundler erb is Tiny eRuby. It interprets a Ruby code embedded text file erb gem command for RubyGems - a sophisticated package manager for Ruby gem irb is the interactive interface for Ruby irb rake a make-like build utility for Ruby rake rdoc generates Ruby documentation rdoc ri displays documentation from a database on Ruby classes, modules, and methods ri ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming ruby libruby.so contains the API functions required by Ruby libruby.so