Asp Forum - Installing Ruby on Red Hat Enterprise Edition on a Terminal

Steckly, Ron

1/25/2008 5:23:00 PM

Hi all,

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I just got a new VPS running Red Hat Enterprise Edition. Sort of regret
it now, as I've always run things on Debian where I just use the sudo
apt-get install command to get ruby and ruby gems on there. Do any of
you know of resources to get Ruby on Red Hat? I googled, but nothing
came up. Is it just me or shouldn't this be obvious?

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Ron

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5 Answers

Felix Windt

1/25/2008 5:50:00 PM

On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 02:22 +0900, Steckly, Ron wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I just got a new VPS running Red Hat Enterprise Edition. Sort of regret
> it now, as I've always run things on Debian where I just use the sudo
> apt-get install command to get ruby and ruby gems on there. Do any of
> you know of resources to get Ruby on Red Hat? I googled, but nothing
> came up. Is it just me or shouldn't this be obvious?
>
>
>
> Ron
>
>
>

RHEL 4:
https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/en-US/System_Administration_Guide/Package_Manag...

RHEL 5:
https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/en-US/RHEL510/Deployment_Guide/pt-pkg-manag...

HTH,

Felix

Steve Ross

1/25/2008 9:55:00 PM

On Jan 25, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Steckly, Ron wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I just got a new VPS running Red Hat Enterprise Edition. Sort of
> regret
> it now, as I've always run things on Debian where I just use the sudo
> apt-get install command to get ruby and ruby gems on there. Do any of
> you know of resources to get Ruby on Red Hat? I googled, but nothing
> came up. Is it just me or shouldn't this be obvious?

I'm running the same setup and I ftp downloaded it from the 1.8.6p111
sources, built it and it installed without a hitch. I then rebuilt
rubygems and life has been wonderful ever since :)

It's hard to learn from "works for me" stories, but the build process
is quite straightforward.

Alexey Verkhovsky

1/27/2008 8:42:00 AM

On Jan 25, 2008 10:22 AM, Steckly, Ron <rsteckly@wharton.upenn.edu> wrote:
> you know of resources to get Ruby on Red Hat?

If you are looking for a precompiled Ruby RPM that was tested on RHEL
(by the way, which version?), one place you can get it is the RPM repo
of RubyWorks Production Stack:
http://rubyworks.rubyforge.org/redhat/<v...

It has more than just Ruby, but Ruby RPM is there somewhere, too.

--
Alexey Verkhovsky
CruiseControl.rb [http://cruisecontrolrb.though...]
RubyWorks [http://rubyworks.though...]

Vidar Hokstad

1/28/2008 1:09:00 PM

On Jan 25, 5:22 pm, "Steckly, Ron" <rstec...@wharton.upenn.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just got a new VPS running Red Hat Enterprise Edition. Sort of regret
> it now, as I've always run things on Debian where I just use the sudo
> apt-get install command to get ruby and ruby gems on there. Do any of
> you know of resources to get Ruby on Red Hat? I googled, but nothing
> came up. Is it just me or shouldn't this be obvious?

There are Ruby RPM's for most versions of Redhat - someone pointed you
a repository, so I won't go there further.

However, depending on what repositories have already been added to
your
VPS, try this first:

up2date -i ruby

If that doesn't work (doesn't find a package), try:

yum install ruby

Note that you can install and use apt-get on Redhat too if you like:
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/pac...

Kyle Schmitt

1/28/2008 2:41:00 PM

On Jan 28, 2008 7:09 AM, Vidar Hokstad <vidar.hokstad@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are Ruby RPM's for most versions of Redhat - someone pointed you
> a repository, so I won't go there further.

Actually there really aren't modern ruby rpms for most RedHat
versions. Going back to RHEL 4 isn't really "most" ;) The shop I'm
working at doesn't like to upgrade old installs if they're working
well, so we've got several RHEL 2.1 boxes still.

Anyway, if anyone needs a modern ruby rpm (1.8.6 stable snapshot) for
rather older RHEL installs, like 2.1AS, I made one, and it's doing
pretty well on some production systems (running scripts and such, not
ruby itself running the production software on these boxes).

--Kyle

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