From: David Unric <dunric29a@...>
Date: 2010-11-21T22:57:11+09:00
Subject: Re: why i can't find my ruby ?

Pen Ttt wrote in post #962916:
> i installed ruby this way:
> sudo wget ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.2-p0.tar.bz2
> sudo tar jxvf ruby-1.9.2-p0.tar.bz2
> cd /home/pt/ruby-1.9.2-p0
> sudo ./configure -prefix=/usr/local/ruby
> sudo make && make install
> sudo ln -s /usr/local/ruby/bin/ruby /usr/bin/ruby
> sudo ln -s /usr/local/ruby/bin/gem /usr/bin/gem
> sudo gedit /etc/environment
>
>
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/ruby/bin"
> when i restart,
> pt@pt:~$ ruby -v
> The program 'ruby' is currently not installed. You can install it by
> typing:
> sudo apt-get install ruby
>
> could you mind to tell me how to  resolve it?

First you have to check whether the compilation & installation process
did succeeded.
Second the target prefix for configure script has two hyphens before so
it has to look like:
  sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ruby
Third what is an output of <code>ls -l /usr/local/ruby/bin/ruby</code> ?

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