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yum install ruby took you 3h? It may take slightly longer if you want 1.9, but it still exists in fedora so it should not take 3h to solve.

• awj 13y ago
  As a developer that primarily works on ruby, I can see it if he wanted 1.9.3. Most of the references you'll find on that tell you to use @environment_wrapper_of_the_month, and those are deep rabbit holes for people who know nothing about the language.
• susi22 13y ago
  Yes I needed 1.9.3 for this silly software. And I had a little special setup so rvm failed to compile. I'm also very overwhelmed by rvm,gem,bundler etc... Python has pip,easy_install(old) and virualenv. Which are just easier to understand for me. Ruby is too much magic and is trying to do everything automatically (IMO).
  • sciurus 13y ago
    Red Hat recently released Ruby 1.9.3 packages as part of "software collections"; I assume CentOS is rebuilding these and making them available the same as they do for other Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages. https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Developer_Toolset/1/html/Software_Collections_Guide/ https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_D...
  • tr4656 13y ago
    Have you tried rbenv? Its easier to setup than rvm and doesn't take too long.
• lmickh 13y ago
  rbenv is a great way to get whatever version of ruby you want up and going fast. Install a couple dependencies, clone the git repo, and run the install.sh. I went from never using it to running on CentOS 6 in a half hour.