Ed Howland wrote: > On 12/1/06, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> $ apt-cache search ^rails >> rails - MVC ruby based framework geared for web application development > > No, no, no, NO! The existance of distro specific packages of Rails is > an anomoly not a reccomendation. "Run away, Run away!" (from the > man-eating rabbit) ... > BTW this is from the official rubyOnRails website: > http://www.rubyonrails.com/down
OK. But the website says I first need Ruby. Right? Can I apt-get ruby? Here's what a search for ruby1.8 gives me: $ apt-cache -f search '^ruby1.8$' Package: ruby1.8 Priority: optional Section: interpreters Installed-Size: 272 Maintainer: akira yamada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 1.8.4-1ubuntu1.2 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), libruby1.8 (>= 1.8.4) Suggests: ruby1.8-examples, rdoc1.8, ri1.8 Filename: pool/main/r/ruby1.8/ruby1.8_1.8.4-1ubuntu1.2_i386.deb Size: 188442 MD5sum: b139692be1c8ed431e628483f1bb4d8b SHA1: 37d3cea29c403f442d517390aafc41bd5fc50961 SHA256: 1854e6a401284e1229e77742d6245b93ac1ed812639a7f301b03ee1d1ad499b1 Description: Interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Ruby 1.8 Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible. . This package provides version 1.8 series of Ruby. . On Debian, Ruby 1.8 is provided as separate packages. You can get full Ruby 1.8 distribution by installing following packages. . ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev ri1.8 rdoc1.8 irb1.8 ruby1.8-elisp ruby1.8-examples libdbm-ruby1.8 libgdbm-ruby1.8 libtcltk-ruby1.8 libopenssl-ruby1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8 Bugs: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Origin: Ubuntu The website recommends 1.8.5, but says 1.8.4 is good enough. What do you recommend? Can I use apt-get for ruby? Regards, - Robert _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
