Or how I stopped hating and learned to love installing Ruby on Centos 5.5
I needed a recent ruby version for tracks. I need tracks because I feel I need to track a todo list. So I am going to run a trial on vialle.amber; my virt home webserv. (I am realizing I need a production and test web server stat. Only one now to serve both which isnt that professional..)
First I tried the beaten yum track. This is Ubuntu’s fault really; I am used to recent versions and apt-get goodness. This gave me 1.6.5 and 0.7 of gems. That didnt do. So I went back to the good old ways of compiling stuff yourself and was reminded of the good old days. This is the short version where I strip the “what the hell weird error is this again?” yelling
Got the source from ruby-lang.org and did the .configure; the make and the make install
This compiles but gives a zlib error with gems. This blogpost helps us with the solution
yum install zlib zlib-devel
cd /usr/local/src/ruby-1.8.5-p2/ext/zlib/
ruby extconf.rb –with-zlib-include=/usr/include –with-zlib-lib=/usr/lib
make
make install
After which we can install ruby gems; download it from the rubygems.org site (unpack, etc) and install using “ruby setup.rb”
Next I needed the mysql ruby gem; Mysql was installed but not the sources necessary for the gem to do its magic, so “yum install mysql-devel”
After thats in place, I could “gem install mysql” and all was ready to go
The lesson here? less relying on the package manager; more Old Skool compiling!
Also; WordPress should introduce subtitles agan. Subtitles are very very cool.
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