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Installing Ruby from Source Files

  1. Update and install the required libraries. From the command line type: 
    sudo apt-get update

    sudo apt-get install build-essential zlib1g zlib1g-dev libreadline6 \
libreadline6-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev
  2. Download the Ruby source code tar.gz file: http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p125.tar.gz
  3. Execute these command from the command line: 
    tar xvzf ruby-1.9.3-p125.tar.gz
    cd ruby-1.9.3-p125
    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install
  4. A nice editor for Ruby is Komodo Edit.