From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2007-10-18T22:22:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby without installation

On 10/18/07, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> On Oct 17, 2007, at 23:00 , anders wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> download a ruby tarball, extract it, then cd into the directory it
> created then:
>
> ./configure --prefix=~/ruby
> make
> make install
> ~/ruby/bin/ruby -v

I sometimes follow this method even for machines that I do have
administrative control of.  If the machines have Java installed, JRuby
may be another option:
    > java -jar ~/jruby-complete.jar -v
    ruby 1.8.5 (2007-09-25 rev 3876) [i386-jruby1.1]