From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2008-12-23T02:06:39+09:00
Subject: Re: how to make installing Ruby easier for amateurs


On Dec 22, 2008, at 12:05 AM, James Britt wrote:

> 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


	If you use this script you should change line 27 to add the --disable- 
pthreads flag

./configure --disable-pthreads

	This can cause a 20-100% speed up on the interpreter  as long as you  
don't need to use tk.

Cheers-

Ezra Zygmuntowicz
ez@engineyard.com