From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2009-07-17T23:42:22+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...

I build from source on Kubuntu.  The pre-built packages tend to be too 
out of date, and compiling from source is easy.


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