Ruby on Rails

On 28 September 2015 at 11:32, Peter Williams <p8mode@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> There are 2 problems:
>
> Even though installing ruby seems possible without source files (eg ruby.h)
> using eg rvm, ruby-install etc, subsequently installing rails as a gem
> requires these files. To avoid version mismatch with the versions from your
> os (package manager eg yum, yast, apt) its best to build ruby from source.
> nokogiri seems to have a bug. Installing rails as a ruby gem fails because
> of nokogiri wanting to bring in its own version of some dev fies (eg
> libxml2, libxslt). So you should install nokogiri separately first
> explicitly telling it not to use these files.

Using rvm to install ruby and rails has always worked fine for me on
various versions of Ubuntu. I have found no need to do otherwise.

Colin

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