From: Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca@...>
Date: 2009-10-07T09:12:56+09:00
Subject: Re: building from source

Stefan Peters wrote:
> 
> On 6 Okt., 21:27, Rajinder Yadav <devguy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Do I need to consider anything if I were to build the latest 1.9 Ruby
>> stable from source.  I currently have Ruby 1.8 installed using the
>> package manager on my Kubuntu.
> 
> Its very easy and fast (at least for 1.8.x i did it for some of our
> older build machines). Just configure, compile and install [1]. Maybe
> setup the PATH of your machine if you installed 1.9 into a separate
> directory. Than you can easily delete if if 1.9 is available over the
> package management.

I think I will start to play around with 1.9. I did a test install of Ruby 
1.9+Gems from source on CentOS 5.3 running in VMWare. It was really easy and 
fast to install.

> 
> Stefan
> 
> [1] http://www.rubyinside.com/how-to-start-playing-with-ruby-19-right-now-661.html
> (should be the same on Kubuntu)

Thanks for the link.
> 
>> I know I can install 1.9 from my package manager.
>> I am wondering what would happen, any adverse effect?
>>
>> --
>> Kind Regards,
>> Rajinder Yadav
>>
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