From: Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@...>
Date: 2005-09-14T07:22:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Where did ruby go?

On 9/13/05, Josh Charles <josh.charles@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just did a clean install of Suse 9.3 and was pleased to see that it
> came with ruby already installed.  However it was not the latest
> version, but 1.8.1.  Rails needs 1.8.2, so I downloaded the source and
> ran ./configure, make, make install
> 
> All of those ran perfectly without errors.  But when I run "ruby -v"
> at the command line, I still get 1.8.1 as the version number.  I
> thought it just might be an issue with changing a symbolic link, but I
> can find the binary for ruby 1.8.2 anywhere.  I tried reading /
> greping the make install output, but that just made my eyes water.
> 
> Where did it go?  Am I missing a terribly easy step somewhere?  I've
> been developing on windows to avoid this sort of thing, but want to
> make the leap here.  Installing ruby on windows is so simple.  But
> then you also have all the other problems running on windows entails.
> 
> Thanks,
> Josh
> 
> 
Usually works pretty well.

I think OS provided versus self-compiled rubies usually go into
different directorys. 1.8.2 is probably not in your path.

/usr/local/bin maybe?

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Nicholas Van Weerdenburg