[Rails] Linux distros

Jeffrey Hardy
Sat, 08 Jul 2006 06:31:12 -0000

On 7-Jul-06, at 6:53 PM, Rob Sanheim wrote:
> With Ubuntu, do you still go thru installing Ruby, gem, rmagick,
> etc...from source, or are there packages that "just work" and are
at
> the latest versions?

Ignore the Rails package on Dapper. It''s borked. Ruby 1.8.4 is
already there, so is rmagick; you''ll need to download and install
Ruby Gems yourself. Once Gems is installed, installing Rails is a
breeze.

That said, I usually just download and compile everything from source.

/Jeff

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