From: Josh Charles <josh.charles@...>
Date: 2005-09-14T08:25:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Where did ruby go?

Exactly what the problem was.  It's fixed now.  Thanks for the tip!

On 9/13/05, Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
> 
> -- 
> Nicholas Van Weerdenburg
> 
>