Ruby-2.4.0

Introduction to Ruby

The Ruby package contains the Ruby development environment. This is useful for object-oriented scripting.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-8.0 platform.

Install Ruby by running the following command:

./configure --prefix=/usr   \
            --enable-shared \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/ruby-2.4.0 &&
make

Optionally, build the CAPI documents by running the following commands:

make capi

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

--enable-shared: This switch enables building of the libruby shared library.

--disable-install-doc: This switch disables building and installing rdoc indexes and C API documents.

--disable-install-rdoc: This switch disables building and installing rdoc indexes.

--disable-install-capi: This switch disables building and installing C API documents.

Installed Programs: erb, gem, irb, rake, rdoc, ri, and ruby

Installed Libraries: libruby.so and libruby-static.a

Installed Directories: /usr/include/ruby-2.4.0 /usr/lib/ruby, /usr/share/doc/ruby-2.4.0 and /usr/share/ri

erb	is Tiny eRuby. It interprets a Ruby code embedded text file.
gem	command for RubyGems - a sophisticated package manager for Ruby.
irb	is the interactive interface for Ruby.
rake	a make-like build utility for Ruby.
rdoc	generates Ruby documentation.
ri	displays documentation from a database on Ruby classes, modules, and methods.
ruby	is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming.
`libruby.so`	contains the API functions required by Ruby.

Last updated on 2017-02-15 18:28:58 -0800