How to Install Ruby on a Shared Web Host
by Chubs
Create a directory for all of the software you are going to download and installed. In this example, the created directory is “temp” at the root of the files system, but you can use any name and location you like.
cd /
mkdir temp
chmod 775 temp
Now, download, configure and install Ruby. You can download the latest stable source tarball for Ruby here. Wget is used in this example:
cd temp
wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.2.tar.gz
tar -zxvf ruby-1.8.2.tar.gz cd ruby-1.8.2
Specify an install directory since there are times when you won’t have permissions to install things in normal directories. Here, we can see the “configure” script for Ruby, creating a directory inside “/usr/local” for installation:
./configure –prefix=/usr/local/ruby –exec-prefix=/usr/local/ruby
Now, you have a Makefile that you can compile:
make
make install
Your Ruby is now installed. You should try making a symbolic link to Ruby somewhere in your local path:
ln -s /usr/local/ruby/bin/ruby /usr/local/bin/ruby