From: Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@...>
Date: 2010-10-26T02:25:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Compile.

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Tridib Bandopadhyay <tridib04@gmail.com> wrote:
> @Rajinder Yadav
>
> I don't want to install ruby. I just want to compile it which is done
> for me.
>
> As its showing test succeeded on Make test command.But i tried a simple
> ruby code as
>
> puts 1+2
>
> with file named calc.rb and tried to run it with command.
>
> ruby calc.rb>>> Its telling me command not found.

Yes. You didn't install ruby, you just compiled it. The system can't
find the ruby command you compiled.


> ___________________________________________________________
> Secondly I tried what you said in my home directory within the server.
>
> ./configure --prefix=~/ruby/local
>
> Its telling me.
>
> configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --prefix:
> ~/ruby/local

The suggestion is good. You need to replace the '~' in the path with
the path of your home directory:

  ./configure --prefix=/home/your-user-name/ruby/local

You might also need to create the path for 'ruby/local' with:

  mkdir -p ~/ruby/local

Rajinder's comments tell you how to add that special path (the system
doesn't know to look there) to the system's list of places to look for
commands, so you can just type:

 $ ruby 'puts 1 + 2'

instead of:

 $ /home/your-user-name/ruby/local/bin/ruby

HTH,
Ammar