Re: Fedora Core 2, cPanel and Ruby

Sean Schertell
Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:36:07 -0000

Rodrigo Alvarez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i have a live server with Fedora Core 2 and cpanel.
> I want to install Ruby 1.8.2, so i can use rails, but it has some
> dependencies that need to swith the computer to Fedora 3.
> It requires a new version of openssl, which breaks dependencies in a LOT
> of
> packages.
> What do you recommend me to do? Update the whole system (how?), use some
> kind of chroot to install the new version of ruby...?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Rodrigo.

Rodrigo Alvarez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i have a live server with Fedora Core 2 and cpanel.
> I want to install Ruby 1.8.2, so i can use rails, but it has some
> dependencies that need to swith the computer to Fedora 3.
> It requires a new version of openssl, which breaks dependencies in a LOT
> of
> packages.
> What do you recommend me to do? Update the whole system (how?), use some
> kind of chroot to install the new version of ruby...?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Rodrigo.


Hi Rodrigo,

You don''t need to upgrade to FC3.  You should be able to just compile
Ruby from source.  It''s very easy and should only take you about 20
minutes.

Here''s what I did in a nutshell.  If you need more help, just ask  :-)

## Ruby, RubyGems, Rails ##
1. Go to http://rubyforge.org and find links to latest:
    - Ruby
    - RubyGems
2. cd /usr/src
3. wget links from step 1 and decompress
4. configure, make, make install Ruby
5. run setup.rb in RubyGems directory
6. gem install rails --include-dependencies


## FastCGI, Ruby-FastCGI Bindings ##
1. Go to http://www.fastcgi.com/dist/ and find the latest
fcgi-xxx.tar.gz
2. wget and decompress
3. configure, make, make install
4. Go to http://sugi.nemui.org/pub/ruby/fcgi/ and find latest
ruby-fcgi-xxx-tar.gz
5. wget and decompress
6. ruby install.rb config
7. ruby install.rb setup
8. ruby install.rb install

-- Test it out --
# irb
> require ''fcgi''
=> true
> exit

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