From: Reid Thompson <Reid.Thompson@...>
Date: 2007-06-14T03:48:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting Ruby

I guess I was a bit terse in my original email.  What I was hoping to
point out is that for anyone new to Ruby / linux / Debian / UBUNTU, the
notes on the download page re apt-get may leave them in a less than
happy state when they attempt to '..get started in programming with
Ruby...'.   If they follow the apt-get instructions pointed out on the
page, then start running through tutorials/book examples, etc, I think
they're pretty quickly going to start hitting errors due to missing
components.

I think it would be beneficial if the apt-get install instructions on
the download page were updated to include the broken out sub portions of
Ruby, or if it was noted that they SHOULD read the ruby apt description
to find out what other sub packages they should install.