From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2008-12-22T17:05:42+09:00
Subject: Re: how to make installing Ruby easier for amateurs

Tom Cloyd wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> As an amateur, and intermittent, programmer, I often run right off the 
> edge of what I know. Sometimes this seems utterly needless. Here's one 
> such case:
> 
> In the past year I've switched from WindowsXP to Kubuntu Linux. I've had 
> to reload the operating system maybe four times, plus two more due to 
> acquiring a USB hard drive (now my primary drive), and now setting my up 
> Kubuntu to run from a flash drive. I have to reinstall Ruby each time, 
> of course. And....EACH TIME I RUN INTO THE SAME STUPID PROBLEM, as 
> exemplified by my experience yesterday:
> 
> I install Ruby 1.8 (yesterday, it was 1.8.7, of course) using either 
> apt-get or the Adept package manager. Then I install Rubygems with 
> apt-get (it's not in Adept's sources, apparently).
> 
> Ready to GO? You would think so. Naively, I always do. But it's not to 
> be. Now the madness starts, and this is what I want fixed.


http://github.com/thewoolleyman/cinabox/tree/master/bootstrap_ruby.sh

Forget apt-get for Ruby.  Maybe one day that will work as most people 
expect it should.  But today is not that day.


Big thanks to Chad Woolley for that script.


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James Britt

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