From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-10-12T01:43:14+09:00
Subject: Re: problem with installation of rubygems-0.8.11

On Oct 11, 2005, at 9:16 AM, pirveli wrote:

> Hi!
> I have been searching for few days by now, but can't find answer for my
> problem.
> I want to install RubyOnRails as an unpriviliged user.
> First I installed ruby (without 'make install', because I don't have
> permissions).
>
> $ ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.3 (2005-09-21) [i686-linux]
>
> I exported path to ruby installation directory and to lib directory
> inside it. I downloaded rubygems-0.8.11.tgz and unpacked it.
> Next I tried:
>
> $ ruby setup.rb
> setup.rb:52:in `require': no such file to load -- rbconfig (LoadError)
>         from setup.rb:52

You need to install ruby.  There are arguments to configure that will 
allow you to specify an alternate installation directory