From: Eko Budi Setiyo <contact_us@...>
Date: 2005-02-17T14:51:04+09:00
Subject: Re: installed ruby on linux without su access

James Britt wrote:

> Eko Budi Setiyo wrote:
>
>> James Britt wrote:
>>
>>> Eko Budi Setiyo wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Beside http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyWithoutRoot
>>>> is there any tutorial to help me really install ruby on linux 
>>>> without root access.
>>>> I am trying to installed it on hosting company where I host my 
>>>> website.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What sort of access do you have? telnet? ssh? ftp?
>>>
>>> I've had success compiling Ruby (including running autoconf) on a 
>>> remote hosting site where all I had was ftp and http access; I wrote 
>>> perl and php scripts, called them through a Web page, and ended up 
>>> with ruby installed under my home dir.
>>>
>>> Life got better after that.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> James
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I have fpt,ssh and of coruse http access. Do you mind share your way 
>> to us.
>
>
>
> If you have ssh, you're in like Flynn.
>
> The only trick is that you have to tell ./configure to install the 
> binaries into your home dir (--prefix=$HOME/ruby or something like that).
>

I tried, but get the following error
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[ekobudi@spruce ruby-1.8.2]$ configure --prefix=/home/ekobudi/stow/ruby
bash: configure: command not found
[ekobudi@spruce ruby-1.8.2]$ ./configure --prefix=/home/ekobudi/stow/ruby
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C 
compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
[ekobudi@spruce ruby-1.8.2]$
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any idea what should I do.

regards
Eko

>
> For those with only ftp/http (as I've been asked this before)
>
>
>
> FTP up the ruby tarball and some perl/php scripts.
>
> The perl/php needs to call system() or exec() or whatever it is called 
> to shell out and:
>
> Extract the tarball to a nice home
> run ./configure in the ruby source dir
> run make
> run make test
> run make install
>
>
> Very important: the call to 'configure'  *must* pass the config 
> options to put the binaries under $HOME/ruby  or something similar.  
> Otherwise it tries to go to /usr/local/ and that will fail.  (I don't 
> have a 'nix system handy to tell you exactly what these are.  I think 
> its --prefix=$HOME/ruby  or some such thing.  Run ./configure --help 
> to be sure.  Or Google for it.)
>
> Tip for the Perl code:  use carp, which is a lib for getting nice CGI 
> errors logged for you.  It can be tricky to get each step right, and 
> tracking down goofy CGI and syntax errors can get annoying.
>
> Code will  probably need to either cd to the installation dir before 
> running specific commands, or make all system calls using full paths. 
> You also have to check what permissions are set on files.  You may end 
> up with files owned by www or apache or something, so have the 
> perl/php code call chmod and chown along the way.
>
> Sorry the details are so vague; I did this about 4 years ago and never 
> really kept track of the scripts I wrote to do this.   But either perl 
> or PHP will do, as they both allow shell calls and writing messages 
> back to the browser.  They're pretty useful for stuff like that.
>
> If you want to be clever you could probably just write a form that 
> takes a string and executes it via a system() call.  Then just pass in 
> each command you need.
>
> Just don't name it index.php.
>
> And your Ruby code will need to use the correct path (i.e. not 
> /usr/local/bin/ruby) to your ruby binaries once you are up and running.
>
> James
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