RudyGems

Installing Ruby 1.9.1 on Ubuntu 9.04

Now, I’m upset that Jaunty Jackalope doesn’t ship with ruby 1.9.1 as default,
and the packaged version is only 1.9.0.

So we’re going to have to build it from source.

And because we’re all progressive people, we’re not even going to worry about suffixing the executables with `1.9` I can’t be bothered to type `gem1.9`

The dependencies are simple;

sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libreadline5 libreadline5-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev

Then the usual process…

mkdir ~/src && cd ~/src
wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-p0.tar.gz
tar -xvf ruby-1.9.1-p0.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.9.1-p0
./configure
make
make test
sudo make install

And to get rails working properly

sudo gem update --system
sudo gem install rails

# and to get sqlite3 working properly
sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev
sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby

Done.

I’ll add to this if I notice any problems