The Ruby package contains the Ruby development environment. This is useful for object-oriented scripting.
Download (HTTP): http://rubyforge.org/download.php/34/ruby-1.8.0.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.0.tar.gz
Download size: 1.9 MB
Estimated Disk space required: 25.6 MB
Estimated build time: 0.52 SBU
Install Ruby by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install |
The Ruby package contains ruby and irb.
ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming.
irb is the interactive interface for ruby.