From: Xeno Campanoli <xcampanoli@...>
Date: 2007-09-14T06:27:36+09:00
Subject: Re: I cannot seem to find a simple way to install eruby on a centos devel box

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>
> How bad would the impact be if you upgraded to CentOS 5? It has Ruby
> 1.8.6, I think, and IIRC it has Rake and RubyGems as well, so you can
> pull in all the Ruby packages you need. I've forgotten which Fedora
> corresponds to CentOS/RHEL 4, but 1.8.1 is IMHO a hopelessly ancient Ruby.
>

I took your suggestion.  CentOS has Ruby 1.8.5, NOT 1.8.6, but that's
still an improvement.  It also has eruby, as you said.  I haven't tried
it out yet, but it's there.  One thing I wonder, however, is how I add
things like hpricot or an XML parser, as ruby-gems is not there, and
these things are supposed to be installed with yummy package managers,
which appear to be incomplete for Ruby stuff...?


> Xeno Campanoli wrote:
>> My box has a 2.6.9-55.0.6.EL kernel, but Centos only wants to give me a
>> 1.8.1 ruby, and yum doesn't see an eruby.  Yum did get an erb, but it
>> looks to me like that is old hat.  Can I just treat the erb as eruby and
>> put it in my cgi-bin (the directions for eruby install in my pickaxe
>> says put it in the cgi-bin)?  Or even better, does someone know an RPM
>> that is known to work?  I googled a link for a Fedora core one, but I
>> would like one that is known to go well on this Centos.  I pulled down
>> the tar.gz file thing from a site and it is complaining when I run the
>> configure.rb file that there are missing headers (presumably mkmf.rb).
>>
>> xc

> 


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