Update 09/15/07: You now must use git to install Rubinius.
I installed Rubinius trunk from source last week for fun on the Mac. Having MRI Ruby 1.8.6, Rubinius trunk and JRuby trunk all on my system at once helps in my efforts to contribute to the JRuby project. You can compare output from multiple Ruby implementations to expose bugs, sometimes even finding bugs in other implementations.
I had to install some dependencies at first so I thought I’d lay it out for y’all. Keep in mind that I am compiling to /usr/local on my mac and I already had the necessary dependencies installed to support MRI Ruby 1.8.6 from scratch (explained in an earlier article).
curl -O ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.16.1.tar.gz tar xzf gettext-0.16.1.tar.gz cd gettext-0.16.1 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make sudo make install cd .. curl -O http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glib/2.13/glib-2.13.0.tar.bz2 tar xjf glib-2.13.0.tar.bz2 cd glib-2.13.0 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make sudo make install cd .. git clone git://git.rubini.us/code rubinius cd rubinius rake build sudo rake install cd ..
Posted on June 1st, 2007 by dysinger
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