Sorry, missed a word out that made part of my reply meaningless. The offending sentence should have read "So the best thing is to *add* that folder to the path". My suggestion to use rvm instead still stands however.
Colin On 14 November 2015 at 08:11, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14 November 2015 at 04:51, Padmahas Bn <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I installed ruby 2.2.0 from source code on Ubuntu server 15.04 in >> "/home/padmahas/ruby/". It created 4 directories "bin", "include", "lib" and >> "share". But when I give the command "ruby -version", it says "the program >> ruby is currently not installed. You can install it by typing sudo apt-get >> install ruby". >> >> So I cd to /home/padmahas/ruby/bin and executed the same command but >> surprisingly Ubuntu gave same error again. I also ensured that the current >> directory (bin) contains the program ruby in it by executing "ls" command. >> The directory contains several files such as, "erb", "gem", "irb", "rake", >> "rdoc", "ri" and "ruby". > > To run a program from the current directory you have to use ./ruby > otherwise it looks in the path first, I think. So the best thing is > to that folder to the path. However I strongly recommend using rvm > (or rbenv), rather than installing from source yourself. It is much > easier and you can install ruby and rails in a single command, plus > have access to different versions on the same machine very easily. > > Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAL%3D0gLv%3DmwQ2_g0CL5gyWyqadpOjctgw8W--N1WCP4gxUdjRKw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
