From: Tim Hunter <rmagick@...>
Date: 2009-07-17T22:31:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Building Ruby From Source?

Tim Apple wrote:
> I am new to Ruby, but fairly used to Linux. I was wondering if those
> developing on Linux compile ruby, gems, and any other libs you may use 
> from
> source, or do you use the premade packages provided by your distro? Just
> curious...
> 
> Tim Apple

I build from source because I develop a fairly widely used Ruby 
extension and I want to test it with multiple versions of Ruby. Building 
from source lets me install multiple distinct versions of Ruby by 
specifying the target directory with the --prefix option on the 
configure script.

But if you just want to write a little Ruby code and the package version 
is sufficient for your needs, why not use it? The only concern I'd have 
is that the version of Ruby in the package has a bug for which you need 
the fix.
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