From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-10-18T16:07:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby without installation

On Oct 17, 2007, at 23:00 , anders wrote:

> Hi!
> I today make som scripts in Perl, it have the advantage it is
> installed everyware
> and i not allowed to install stuff, eg Ruby but i have full acces to
> my userarea.
>
> I time ago i so LispInABox witch was LISP and EMACS and everyting
> arounf
> needed, just unzip the catalog and use it...
>
> I like to find equal stuff for Ruby, does anyone know if this exits

download a ruby tarball, extract it, then cd into the directory it  
created then:

./configure --prefix=~/ruby
make
make install
~/ruby/bin/ruby -v

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